My Animals & Flowers

An important translation that illustrates Lessing's parallels between animal and human society whilst applying them to wider social, psychological and philosophical contexts.

Theodor Lessing (1872-1933) was a German Jewish philosopher known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his book on Jewish self-hatred.
Peter Appelbaum (translator) is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at Pennsylvania State University, USA. During his retirement years he has published fourteen books and translations about Jews in Central Europe during World War I and thereafter. He was awarded the (London) Times Literary Supplement - Risa Domb Porjes Prize in 2019 for his translation of Avigdor Hameiri's Hell on Earth. He has published two previous translations of Theodor Lessing's works: Jewish Self-Hate (2021), and Enemy in the Country: Satires and Novellas (2022).
Benton Arnovitz is director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA. He is also an editor, literary agent, and retired publishing director.