"ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" Continues to Attract International Attention
"ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" -- the highly acclaimed, controversial book by American author Charles Patterson -- is fast becoming an international sensation. Israel is the latest country to translate the book, which has already been published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic. Plans are underway to translate and publish the book in Japan and Portugal as well.
(PRWEB) August 9, 2005 -- ETERNAL TREBLINKA (1-930051-99-9) continues to
attract international attention.
The Pardes Publishing House in Haifa
will publish the Israeli edition later in the fall. This Hebrew translation will
be the book's sixth since the English edition 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.
Last winter a
jury of 30 of the Germany's leading scholars and media figures chose "Für die
Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" (ISBN 3861506491), the German edition of ETERNAL
TREBLINKA, as one of the country's ten most important non-fiction books. It was
honored alongside books about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and World War
I by Sachbücher des Monats, sponsored by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Buchjournal,
Börsenblatt, and Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
Favorable reviews of "Für die
Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" 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 papers.
The website of Prijatelji Zivotinja (Animal Friends
Croatia) in Zagreb, where the Croatian edition was recently published, describes
ETERNAL TREBLINKA as follows: "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 modern society treats the
animals it slaughters for food.
The first part of the book describes the
emergence of humans as the "master species" and how we came 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 Zweitausendeins in Frankfurt am Main published the German edition.
Last winter in Zagreb the Genesis publishing house published the
Croatian edition (Vjecna Treblinka).
http://www.EternalTreblinka.com
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)
"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)
"This
book is going to change the world."
--Albert Kaplan, Albert Kaplan & Co.,
Johns Island, SC
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