"Eternal Treblinka" to be Published in Israel
Israel is the latest country to decide to publish the internationally acclaimed Holocaust/Animal Rights book --Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust. The Pardes Publishing House in Haifa will translate the book into Hebrew and publish it in the fall.
(PRWEB) May 4, 2005 -- The Pardes Publishing House in Haifa will translate
the internationally acclaimed book Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals
and the Holocaust (1-930051-99-9) into Hebrew and publish it in the fall.
In February 2005 it was on display at the Jerusalem International Book
Fair where it attracted much attention.
The Hebrew translation will be
the book's sixth translation since the American edition, written by Dr. Charles
Patterson, was published three years ago in New York City. "Eternal Treblinka"
has already been translated and published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia,
and the Czech Republic.
What Jewish reviewers have been
saying:
"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
"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
"Important and timely...written
with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that Eternal Treblinka will be
widely read."
--Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication)
"Patterson's book sheds light on the violence perpetuated every day
against animals and humans alike so that we might one day put an end to
it."
--Moment Magazine
"Eternal Treblinka is an eye-opening,
thought-provoking book that I highly recommend."
--Michael Fein, The Gantseh
Megillah, Montreal
"Hard to read--but 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
"Meticulously researched and
compelling treatment of a painful and controversial subject."
--Jewish
Journal of Greater Los Angeles
"A thorough and thought-provoking
book"
--Ha'aretz
"Powerful, moving, gut-wrenching, brilliant--destined
to be a classic"
--Aviva Cantor, journalist and author
In February
2005 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.
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.
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."
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.
Foreign
translations:
Italy:
Un'eterna Treblinka
Editori Riuniti, Rome,
2003
Poland:
Wieczna Treblinka
“Vega!POL” Publishing House, Opole,
2003
Czech Republic:
Vecna Treblinka
Publishing House Prah, Prague,
2003
Germany:
"Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag
Treblinka"
Zweitausendeins Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main,
2004
Croatia:
Vjecna Treblinka
Genesis, Zagreb,
2005
Israel:
Hebrew edition (forthcoming)
Pardes, Haifa,
2005
Dr. Charles Patterson is also the author of Anti-Semitism: The Road
to the Holocaust and Beyond, The Civil Rights Movement, Marian Anderson (winner
of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award), From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall
(co-author with Holocaust survivor Mr. Marian Filar), and other books.
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