Roberta Kalechofsky

Roberta Kalechofsky

Roberta Kalechofsky (born May 11, 1931 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American writer and animal rights activist .

Life

Kalechofsky grew up in Brooklyn. She studied at Brooklyn College and then at New York University . At the latter she received her doctorate in English literature in 1970. She then began to publish prose . In 1975 she founded the publishing house Micah Publishing, originally primarily for prose literature. She has taught at Brooklyn College, Salem State College, and the University of Connecticut .

In the early 1980s she read a manuscript of Richard Schwartz 's Judaism and Vegetarianism and Curzio Malaparte's novel The Skin . Reading the two works, on the one hand the new knowledge about factory farming and animal testing, on the other hand, moved her to become a vegetarian and animal rights activist. She subsequently founded the animal rights organization Jews for Animal Rights , and since then her publishing house has primarily published books on vegetarianism and animal rights.

Her books and her commitment to animal rights are based on her Jewish belief and an interpretation of the Talmud that no living animal should suffer suffering. Her two books Haggadah for the Liberated Lamb and Haggadah for the Vegetarian Family , Haggaadot for vegetarian Seder dishes on Passover Eve , sold more than ten thousand copies.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} John M. Kistler: People Promoting and People Opposing Animal Rights: In Their Own Words . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31322-6 , pp. 159-164 .
2. ↑ The Papers of Roberta Kalechofsky. In: Brooklyn College Library Archives & Special Collections. Retrieved March 24, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Kerry S. Walters, Lisa Portmess (ed.): Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama . Suny Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-9067-9 , pp. 97 .