Internationally Acclaimed American Book--"Eternal Treblinka"--to be Published in Israel

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 3, 2005 -- The Pardes Publishing House in Haifa will publish the internationally acclaimed book Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (1-930051-99-9) in the late fall. Its translation into Hebrew is now nearing completion.

The Hebrew translation of "Eternal Treblinka" will be the book's sixth translation since the American edition, written by Charles Patterson, was published by Lantern Books three years ago in New York City. "Eternal Treblinka" has already been translated and published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic, and a Japanese publication is scheduled for early next year.

WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING--

"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic, strongly recommended...a unique contribution."
--Midwest Book Review

"Charles Patterson's book will go a long way towards righting the terrible wrongs that human beings, throughout history, have perpetrated on non-human animals. I urge you to read it and think deeply about its important message."
--Dr. Jane Goodall

"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 (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)

In February 2005 in Germany a jury of 30 of the country's leading scholars and media figures (Sachb�cher des Monats) chose "F�r 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.

Since its publication in the United States three years ago 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.

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