New York Radio Station WBAI 99.5 FM Interviewed Author of 'Eternal Treblinka'

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 21, 2006

The new R.O.A.R.! (Reaching Out for Animal Rights) program on WBAI Radio (99.5 FM) interviewed Charles Patterson about his critically acclaimed book "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (ISBN 1-930051-99-9) on Friday, December 1 (11am - noon). The show will be archived for 90 days, so it can also be heard online afterwards until the end of February, 2007 on http://archive.wbai.org or on http://wbai.org (click left "24/7 Audio Archive"). Wait for all the programs to come up--then scroll down to "Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 11am" to the program called (incorrectly) "Rise Up Radio."

This was the third time Patterson was on WBAI. Shortly after Lantern Books published his book in 2002, he was the guest of David Occhiuto on "Eco-Logic." More recently Louis Reyes Rivera ("Perspectives") interviewed Patterson and two other book author members of the National Writers Union about what they do to promote their books.

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 in one of his stories, "for animals it is an eternal Treblinka." (Treblinka was the Nazi death camp northeast 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.

In 2007, the publication of French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese editions of Eternal Treblinka will mean the book will be in 11 languages. It has already been translated and published in Israel, Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic.

What they're saying:

"I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka 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

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

"You must read this carefully documented book" --La Stampa (Italian national newspaper)

"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.

"Important and timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion. I hope that Eternal Treblinka will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication)

"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

"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

"...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)

http://www.EternalTreblinka.com

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