Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the HolocaustThis book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book (Chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part (Chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times. The last part of the book (Chapters 6-8) profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself. The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her foreword, the Preface and Afterword, excerpts from the book, chapter synopses, and an international list of supporters can be found on the book's website at: www.powerfulbook.com |
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... creatures . Of course , Genesis was written by a man , not a horse . There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures . What seems more likely , in fact , is that man invented God to sanctify the ...
... creature . On the contrary , it is our duty to relieve the pain of any creature . ' " 71 The Bible remembers less ... creatures was that they should eat plants , not each other . ” " Whether or not we find it practical and desirable ...
... creature which is not in some respect superior to one creature and inferior to another . " 94 The Great Chain of Being explained why certain social classes were by nature subordinate to others in a society in which each class had its ...
... creatures who were part - man and part - animal . Carolus Linnaeus , who created the modern scientific classification of plants and animals , found room in his system for homo ferns , a wild man who was " four - footed , mute and hairy ...
... creatures , he went on to point out that " this piece of arrogance " is the result of " a later , more pretentious stage of development " and that this stage is foreign to children because a child can see no difference between his own ...
Contents
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MASTER SPECIES MASTER RACE | 51 |
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SLAUGHTER The Road to Auschwitz Through America | 53 |
IMPROVING THE HERD From Animal Breeding to Genocide | 81 |
WITHOUT THE HOMAGE OF A TEAR Killing Centers in America and Germany | 109 |
HOLOCAUST ECHOES | 137 |
WE WERE LIKE THAT TOO HolocaustConnected Animal Advocates | 139 |
THIS BOUNDLESS SLAUGHTERHOUSE The Compassionate Vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 169 |
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOLOCAUST German Voices for the Voiceless | 201 |
AFTERWORD | 231 |
NOTES | 233 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 271 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 281 |
INDEX | 283 |
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A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann Matthias Beier Limited preview - 2006 |
The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities Karen Davis No preview available - 2005 |