Controversial American Book "Eternal Treblinka" Published in Croatia
Croatia became the latest country to translate and publish the groundbreaking book "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" by American author Dr. Charles Patterson (ISBN 1-930051-99-9). The publication of the Croatian edition of Eternal Treblinka (Vjecna Treblinka) by Animal Friends Croatia and Genesis (ISBN 953-6785-29-3) follows the translation and publication of the book in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
(PRWEB) March 2, 2005 -- Vjecna Treblinka (the Croatian edition of Eternal
Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust--ISBN 953-6785-29-3) has
just been released in Zagreb, Croatia, jointly by the Genesis Publishing House
and Prijatelji Zivotinja (Animal Friends Croatia). Bernard Vjeran Franolic of
Prijatelji Zivotinja translated the book into Croatian.
Here is the way
the website of Animal Friends Croatia describes the book: "The book that breaks
all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world."
Last month in Germany a jury of 30 of the country's leading scholars and
media figures (Sachbücher des Monats) chose "Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag
Treblinka" (ISBN 3861506491), the German edition of Eternal Treblinka (New York:
Lantern Books, 2002) as one of the country's ten most important non-fiction
books, along with books about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and World War
I.
"Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" ("For the Animals Every Day
is Treblinka") was published in the fall of 2004 by the German publishing house
of Zweitausendeins Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main.
The complete
list of the ten books chosen for "Sachbücher des Monats: Februar 2005"
(sponsored by Südeutsche Zeitung, Buchjournal, Börsenblatt, and Norddeutscher
Rundfunk) and the names of the 30 German media leaders and scholars on the jury
that selected them can be found at http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/bookmark/sendung/76022
Favorable
reviews of Patterson's "Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" have also
appeared in Germany's two leading newspapers--Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurt
Allgemeine Zeitung--as well in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Nürnberger Nachrichten,
Frankfurter Neue Presse, and other smaller publications.
Since its
publication in the United States three years ago by Lantern Books in New York,
Eternal Treblinka is fast becoming an international sensation.
Besides
Germany and Croatia, Eternal Treblinka has also been translated and published in
Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Other publishers around the world are
also considering it for publication.
The book's title comes from the
Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, to whom the book is
dedicated. He was the first major modern author to describe the exploitation and
slaughter of animals in terms of the Holocaust. "In relation to them, all people
are Nazis," he wrote, "for animals it is an eternal Treblinka." (Treblinka was
the Nazi death camp north of Warsaw.)
Eternal Treblinka examines the
common roots of animal and human oppression and the similarities between how the
Nazis treated their victims and how human society treats animals slaughtered for
food.
The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as
the "master species" and how it has come to dominate the earth and its other
inhabitants. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter of both
animals and humans in modern times, while the last part of the book profiles
Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including
Isaac Bashevis Singer himself.
Almost immediately after Lantern Books
published the book in 2002, it began attracting the attention of foreign
publishers, and soon translations were underway.
In April, 2003, the
Roman publishing house of Editori Riuniti published the Italian edition
(Un'eterna Treblinka), and the following month “Vega!POL” published the Polish
edition (Wieczna Treblinka).
In September, 2003, the Publishing House
Prah in Prague published the Czech edition (Vecna Treblinka), and in the fall of
2004 the German edition followed.
The just published Croatian edition
(Vjecna Treblinka) is the most recent foreign publication.
Here's What
They're Saying--
"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly
recommended...a unique contribution." --Midwest Book Review
"Eternal
Treblinka should be on every list of essential reading for an informed
citizenry...for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it
tells."--National Jewish Post & Opinion
"A must read! -- how
mistreatment of animals leads to the dehumanization and extermination of people
as 'mere animals.' Well-written and respectful of both Judaism and the
Holocaust." --Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
"There are good
books...entertaining, useful, informative; great books...whose message reveals a
fundamental truth previously unknown or overlooked; and important books...that
can save lives and ameliorate suffering: Eternal Treblinka is all three."
--Satya Magazine, New York City.
"The moral challenge posed by Eternal
Treblinka turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal
lesson of the Holocaust." --Maariv (Israeli newspaper)
"Important and
timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion ...I hope that Eternal
Treblinka will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust
publication)
"Every so often a book is written that has the potential to
make an incredible difference. Eternal Treblinka is one such book." --N. Glenn
Perrett
"Thorough and thought-provoking book" --Ha'aretz (Israeli
newspaper)
"It is seldom that such a comprehensive work of scholarship
springs from a heart of compassion in the service of a noble and necessary idea.
All the ingredients of your thesis--that the oppression of animals serves as the
model for all other forms of oppression--have been available to thinking people
for generations, but it remained for you to pull them together." --Helen Weaver,
author of The Daisy Sutra
"I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think
deeply about its important message. " --Dr. Jane Goodall
"The whole
effect is a very powerful document...No one who reads this book will fail to be
moved." --Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
"Powerful, moving,
gut-wrenching, brilliant--destined to be a classic" --Aviva Cantor, journalist
and author
"You must read this carefully documented book" --La Stampa
(Italian national newspaper)
"...promises to be one of the most
influential books of the 21st century." --Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry
Concerns
"It grips like a thriller." --The Freethinker (UK)
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