Eternal Treblinka to be the First Book Discussed by the Lantern Books Reading Club in New York City



March 23, 2005 -- "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" by Charles Patterson, Ph.D. (ISBN 1-930051-99-9) will be discussed at the first meeting of the Lantern Books Reading Club on Monday, March 28, 6:45-8pm in New York City. Dr. Patterson will take part in the discussion.

Where: Lantern Books, One Union Square West, Suite 201, New York City (southwest corner of 14th St. & University Place, 2nd floor)

Cost: Free. Munchies will be provided. RSVP not required.

The reading club will meet every three months to discuss books about animal rights, vegetarianism, the environment, and social justice published by Lantern Books, whose purpose is "to publish books for all wanting to live with greater spiritual depth and commitment to the preservation of the natural world."

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Discussion facilitators will include moderator Jean Thaler, Lantern publisher Martin Rowe, and others. Jean Thaler formerly ran Big Apple Vegetarians and the Makor Book Club. Her goal is to have a fun, informed, participatory discussion. She is pleased to support this unique publisher and its authors.

For information about this and future meetings contact Lantern Books at 212-414-2275 x17.

Since its publication in the United States three years ago, Eternal Treblinka is fast becoming an international sensation.

Eternal Treblinka has been translated and published in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Croatia. Other publishers around the world are also considering it for 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 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).

"Fr die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" ("For the Animals Every Day is Treblinka") was published in the fall of 2004 by Zweitausendeins Versand Dienst GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (ISBN 3861506491).

Last month (February) in Germany a jury of 30 of the country's leading scholars and media figures (Sachbcher des Monats) chose "Fr die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" 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.

The just published Croatian edition (Vjecna Treblinka) is the most recent foreign publication.

Here is how the website of Animal Friends Croatia describes it: "The book that breaks all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world."

What They're Saying--

"Compelling, controversial, iconoclasticstrongly recommendeda unique contribution." --Midwest Book Review

"Eternal Treblinka should be on every list of essential reading for an informed citizenryfor 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 booksentertaining, useful, informative; great bookswhose message reveals a fundamental truth previously unknown or overlooked; and important booksthat 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 timelywritten 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

"I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message. " --Dr. Jane Goodall

"The whole effect is a very powerful documentNo 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)





Eternal Treblinka to be the First Book Discussed by the Lantern Books Reading Club in New York City