Author of "Eternal Treblinka" will be Interviewed on WBAI in New York About Book Promotion on Nov. 17 and will be a Panelist at a Manhattan Bookstore Dec. 6

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 14, 2005

Poet Louis Reyes Rivera will interview Charles Patterson, author of “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust” (ISBN 1-930051-99-9), and two mystery writers about how authors promote their books. His radio show “Perspective” will be aired on New York's WBAI (99.5 FM) on Thursday, November 17 from 2 to 3 pm.

The interview precedes a National Writers Union panel discussion on the same subject featuring the same authors--Grace Edwards, Charles Patterson, Louis Reyes Rivera, and Tim Sheard--that will take place on Tuesday, December 6 at Coliseum Books in Manhattan (11 West 42nd Street between 5th & 6th Avenues). The panel called “Pushing Words: How Authors Promote Their Work” will be introduced by Susan E. Davis and moderated by Alexandra Leader. It starts at 6:30 pm and is free and open to the public.

Patterson's controversial book about our society's "Nazi" treatment of animals was rejected by 83 American publishers before he finally decided to publish it himself (Lantern Books is the distributor). The book is now in its second printing and is attracting international attention.

The Pardes Publishing House in Haifa translated the book recently into Hebrew and will publish the Israeli edition in early 2006.

Eternal Treblinka has already been translated and published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic, and Spanish and Portuguese translations are on the way.

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 published earlier in the year, describes Eternal Treblinka as follows: "The book that breaks all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world."

The title of Patterson's book 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 Eternal Treblinka was published 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 shortly afterwards “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 the Croatian edition (Vjecna Treblinka) was published by the Genesis publishing house in Zagreb.

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)

For more information about Patterson's book visit http://www.EternalTreblinka.com

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