AR-News: New Translations for Controversial, Internationally Acclaimed Book

Tue Jun 15 23:52:35 EDT 2004

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New Translations for Controversial, Internationally Acclaimed Book

German and Croatian editions of the provocative book "Eternal Treblinka" by
American author Dr. Charles Patterson will be published by the end of 2004.
In 2003 the book was translated and published in Italy, Poland, and the
Czech Republic. Publishers in other countries are also reviewing the book
for possible publication.

(PRWEB) June 15, 2004 -- ETERNAL TREBLINKA: Our Treatment of Animals and the
>Holocaust (New York: Lantern Books, 2002)--the groundbreaking book by
>historian and Holocaust educator Charles Patterson, Ph.D.--is fast becoming
>an international sensation.
>
>Two years after its publication in the United States it has already been
>translated into five languages (Croatian, Czech, German, Italian, Polish)
>with more publishers around the world considering it for possible
>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 Holocaust-connected Jewish and German animal advocates on both
>sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself.
>
>The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, the daughter of Holocaust survivors,
>who is a former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
>(PETA).
>
>During the three years Patterson spent writing the book, three literary
>agents tried unsuccessfully to place it (a couple of publishers said the
>book was "too strong"). In all, 83 publishers declined to accept the book
>before Lantern Books finally published it in 2002.
>
>Almost immediately the book 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 the Publishing House Prah in Prague published the Czech edition
>(VECNA TREBLINKA), which has been reviewed favorably by various leading
>publications, including the literature/history/arts magazine ALTERNATIVA,
>the quarterly DOKORAN, a bulletin of Czech Writers' Guild, and the LITERARNI
>NOVINY, the most important and widely read literary newspaper in the Czech
>Republic.
>
>ETERNAL TREBLINKA has also been translated into German (scheduled for
>publication by Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main in August) and is
>being translated into Croatian for publication in Zagreb later this year.
>
>Publishing houses in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Chile, India,
>and Israel are also reviewing the book for possible publication.
>
>Here's What They're Saying--
>
>"I urge you to read ETERNAL TREBLINKA and think deeply about its important
>message. " --Dr. Jane Goodall
>
>"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
>
>"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
>
>"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
>
>"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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and moral status from property to living beings with their own needs and
interests, we recommend using the term "guardian", rather than "owner", and
"he" or "she" rather than "it", in ordinances, legislation and in everyday
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