It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for. Primo Levi is the rare writer about whom it can be said that his literary virtues are largely inseparable from his moral ones. Still ...

Primo Levi kills himself again and again. It’s been twenty-six years since he flung himself from the fourth floor of his apartment building, and for many people the circumstances of his death ...

And then there is Primo Levi. When he plunged to his death down the stairwell of his Turin apartment building on the morning of April 11, 1987, only minutes after answering the doorbell of his ...

Amidst the quarters of a cattle car, after the clutches of the murderous Nazi regime, on the path back to his hometown of Turin in Italy, Primo Levi could finally breathe again. Subsequent to the ...

The starting point are a few words written by Primo Levi in "If this is a man": "I believe that I owe it to Lorenzo that I am alive today...". Yes, but who was Lorenzo? Why was he so important to ...

The use of a Primo Levi quote to advertise a pro-Palestinian protest planned in Milan on Saturday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, has drawn a rebuke from an Italian Jewish community ...

Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish Holocaust survivor, famously wrote in his autobiography Survival in Auschwitz of the need for another language to articulate the feelings that people in the camps ...

Far more powerful are the words of Primo Levi, which I try to convey when standing at the site of a grave of 500 children in the forest outside Tarnow, or a crematoria in Majdanek: “It happened ...