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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... human hunter set forth with spear into the primeval forest . Human imperialism has everywhere enslaved , oppressed , murdered , and mutilated the animal peoples . All around us lie the slave camps we have built for our fellow creatures ...
Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust Charles Patterson. CHAPTER ONE THE GREAT DIVIDE Human Supremacy and the Exploitation of Animals igmund Freud put the issue of human supremacy in perspective in Sigmund Freud putte : In the ...
Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust Charles Patterson. others — what Montaigne called human arrogance and Freud called human megalomania . The Great Leap Forward Man's emergence as the dominant species is a very recent development ...
... human , it was at the time of that leap . " 10 Since the genetic make - up of humans is so close to that of chim- panzees , whatever caused the breakthrough involved just a tiny fraction of human genes . Many scientists , Diamond ...
... human vowels , their capacity for language is limited to just a few vowels and consonants.1 Thus , the absence of " mutations for altered tongue and larynx anatomy " that made human vocalization possible has consigned captured chim ...
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 |