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Eternal Treblinka--Now Published in Spanish
Internationally Acclaimed Book--Eternal Treblinka--Now Published in Spanish
Spain is the latest country to publish "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust." Its Spanish title is "Por qué maltratamos tanto a los animales?" Many consider Charles Patterson's book--soon to be in 13 languages--the most powerful defense of animals ever written.
New York, NY (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 -- Editorial Milenio in Lerida, Spain announces the publication of "Por qué maltratamos tanto a los animales? Un modelo para la masacre de personas en los campos de exterminio nazis" (ISBN 978-84-9743-254-2). It's the Spanish edition of the highly acclaimed "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (ISBN 1-930051-99-9) by American author Charles Patterson.
Eternal Treblinka has also been published in Israel, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Japan. Russian, Slovenian and Portuguese translations are also underway. In the United States the book is in its third printing.
In January, 2008, several days after Calmann-Lévy published "Un éternel Treblinka" (ISBN 978-2-7021-3845-8) in Paris, France's leading newspaper Le Monde reviewed it favorably. It was the subject of an hour-long discussion about the origins of violence by French intellectuals on national radio.
In February, 2005, a jury of 30 of the Germany's leading scholars and media figures chose "Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" (ISBN 3-6150-649-1), 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.
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.
Praise From Around The World--
"I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message." --Dr. Jane Goodall, UK
"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)
"A thought-provoking masterpiece meticulously and brilliantly articulated." --Dr. Ndubuisi Eke, Head, Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
"Important and timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion. I hope that Eternal Treblinka will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication), New York, USA
"Kafka would have applauded Eternal Treblinka. It grips like a thriller." --The Freethinker, UK
"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, USA
"The book does a perfect and professional job of showing the similarity between the mistreatment of people and of animals. It's written with great sensitivity. Will no doubt be a valuable addition to everyone's collection." --Dr. Vugar Huseynov, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.
"A very important achievement for animals and humans alike. Most probably your work will only be truly appreciated in years to come, but this is the fate of nearly all original and independent authors." --Christa Blanke, Freiburg, Germany
"It's one of the few books which totally grabs the reader, not only while reading it, but afterwards also, and probably forever...it profoundly disturbs, shocks and destroys." --Croatian philosopher Hrvoje Juric, Zagreb, Croatia
"You must read this carefully documented book." --La Stampa (Italian national 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, USA
"I believe, along with many others, that your book is one of the most important books of the century." --Tanja Tuma, publisher, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Very well researched and written with great sensitivity...a compelling, useful and informative book, which I strongly recommend to others in sub-Saharan Africa." --Professor P S Igbigbi, Head, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Malawi
"A thorough and thought-provoking book." --Ha'aretz (Israeli newspaper)
"The book that breaks all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world." --Prijatelji Zivotinja (Animal Friends Croatia), Zagreb, Croatia