Roberta Kalechofsky 1661463 221078053 2008-06-22T23:29:12Z 190.44.40.2 /* Further reading */ <!-- Deleted image removed: [[Image:RobertaKalechofsky.jpg|frame|Dr. Roberta Kalechovsky]] --> '''Roberta Kalechofsky''' (born [[May 11]], [[1931]]) is an [[United States|American]] writer, [[Feminism|feminist]] and [[animal rights]] activist, focusing on the issue of animal rights within [[Judaism]] and the promotion of [[vegetarian]]ism within the [[Jew]]ish community. She is the founder of Jews for Animal Rights and runs Micah Publications, which specializes in the publication of animal-rights and vegetarian literature. She is the author of ''Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons'' (2003), as well as seven works of [[fiction]], [[poetry]], two collections of essays, and a monograph on [[George Orwell]]. <ref>[http://www.micahbooks.com/speaker.html Roberta Kalechofsky's biography], Micah Publications.</ref> Micah, which Kalechofsky founded in 1975, has published two [[Haggadah|haggadot]] for a vegetarian [[Passover Seder|seder]], one of which, ''Haggadah for the Liberated Lamb'', has been exhibited at [[Harvard University]] in an exhibit on food and politics, and at the [[Jewish Museum (New York)|Jewish Museum in New York]]. Philosopher [[Tom Regan]] has said of Kalechofsky, "[o]f all the historians of ideas with whom I am familiar, if I had a choice between listening to just one of them, I would not hesitate to choose Roberta. She is that good, that worth spending time with." <ref name=Braun>Braun, Nathan. [http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/encyclopedia/e_k.html "Roberta Kalechofsky"], Women in Judaism, 2002.</ref> ==Education and teaching== Kalechofksy attended [[Brooklyn College]], receiving her B.A. in 1952, followed by an M.A. in English literature from [[New York University]] in 1956, and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1970, also in English literature. She has taught at the [[University of Connecticut]] and [[Brooklyn College]]. ==Jews for Animal Rights== Kalechofsky founded Jews for Animal Rights in 1985 with the aim of upholding and spread the [[Talmud]]ic prohibition against causing suffering to living creatures, known as ''tza'ar ba'alei hayyim''. The group promotes the ideas of Rabbi [[Abraham Isaac Kook|Abraham Kook]] on [[vegetarianism]], and campaigns to find alternatives to [[animal testing]]. <ref>[http://www.micahbooks.com/JAR.html Jews for Animal Rights website]</ref> ==Works== *''Autobiography of A Revolutionary: Essays on My Life as an Animal Rights Activist''. Micah Publications, 1991. *''Bodmin, 1349'' *''The Martyrdom of Stephen Werner'' *''Solomon's Wisdom and Other Stories'' *''Job Enters a Pain Clinic'' *''Justice My Brother, My Sister'' *''Orestes in Progress'' *''A View of Toledo'' ==Honours== * 1987: Literary Fellowship in Fiction, Massachusetts Council on the Arts. * 1982: Honorary Membership in Israel Bibliopile Society. * 1982: Literary Fellowship in Creative Writing, National Endowment for the Arts; publishing grant from Massachusetts Council on the Arts. * 1980: Grant from National Endowment for the Arts in small Press Publishing; finalist in Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. * 1977: Finalist in Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship in Fiction; cited for Distinctive Writing in Best American Short Stories of 1977; grant from National Endowment for the Arts in Small Press Publishing. * 1976: Cited for Distinctive Writing in Best American Short Stories of 1976. * 1972: Included in Best American Short Stories of 1972. ==See also== *[[Jewish ethics#Animals and the environment|Animals and the environment in Jewish ethics]] *[[Animal rights and the Holocaust]] ==Notes== <references/> ==Further reading== *"The Evolution of An Independent Publisher," ''Judaica Book News'', 1983 *Cohen, Noah J. ''Tsa'ar ba'ale hayim: The prevention of cruelty to animals: its bases, development, and legislation in Hebrew literature'', New York: Feldheim, 1979. *Kaganoff, P. "An Independent Woman of Words," ''The Jewish Monthly'', 1988 *Kalechofsky, R. ''Animal Suffering and the Holocaust: The Problem with Comparisons'', 2003. ISBN 0-916288-49-8 *Kalechofksy, R. (ed.) ''Judaism and Animal Rights: Classical and Contemporary Responses'', a collection of 41 articles by rabbis, doctors, veterinarians, and philosophers on animal rights and Judaism, 1992. ISBN 0-916288-35-8 *Kalechofksy, R. ''Vegetarian Judaism: A Guide for Everyone'', 1998. ISBN 0-916288-45-5 *Kalechofsky, Roberta. [http://www.vegetarianfriends.net/issue4.html#5 Book Review by Urrutia of "A Boy, a Chicken, and the Lion of Judah: How Ari became a Vegetarian"]. *Patterson, C. ''Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust'', 2002. ISBN 1-930051-99-9 *Schwartz, R. ''The Schwartz Collection on Judaism, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights''. *Walden, D. (ed.) "American Jewish Writers, ''Dictionary of Literary Biographies'', vol 28, 1984. *[http://www.micahbooks.com/JAR.html Jews for Animal Rights website] *[http://www.jewishveg.com/ Jewish Vegetarians of North America] {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalechofsky, Roberta}} [[Category:Animal rights movement]] [[Category:Jewish American writers]] [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:American feminists]] [[Category:American vegetarians]]