Throughout the 1990’s I taught Western Civilization at Cooper Union in NYC. Every semester we read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man). No doubt it is a masterpiece, not only as a ...
Verso, 128 pages, $17.95. Although best known for his seminal work, “Survival in Auschwitz,” Primo Levi’s searing memoir was actually his second attempt to grapple with the enormity of Nazi ...
The Conversation: Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
Like Primo Levi at Auschwitz, Behrouz Boochani testifies for the people who lived and died in a prison camp
SFGate: ELEMENTS OF GENIUS / Passionate biography of Primo Levi says Auschwitz gave him a reason to live
ELEMENTS OF GENIUS / Passionate biography of Primo Levi says Auschwitz gave him a reason to live
But Primo Levi's experiences were not exactly typical. As a middle class Italian Jew educated in chemistry, he was "lucky" (as he words it) to have been sent to Auschwitz in 1944, a time when the ...
With the exception of some months working as a chemist in Milan at the beginning of the war and the year in which he survived Auschwitz, Primo Levi lived in the same apartment in Turin for all of his ...
BroadwayWorld: Debut Playwright To Pioneer The Work Of Auschwitz Survivor Primo Levi In London's Off-West End
Debut Playwright To Pioneer The Work Of Auschwitz Survivor Primo Levi In London's Off-West End
This week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Primo Levi, an Italian writer whose accounts of the death camp at Auschwitz are among the most admired examples of Holocaust literature. A new ...