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New Primo Levi Stories Published
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NPR Weekend All Things Considered
04-15-2007
New Primo Levi Stories Published
Host; JACKI LYDEN
Time 19:00-20:00 PM
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Today, Israelis and Jews around the world mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. Also, this past week marked the 20th anniversary of the death of a prominent Holocaust survivor, the Italian writer Primo Levi. His autobiographical narratives of the Nazi dea...
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BOOK MARKS
Chicago Jewish Star
; IN THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS HEFTY TOME, Carole Angier says that digging up the facts about Primo Levi (1919-1987) from his Turin-based relatives, friends and associates was a difficult exercise, given the reserve of the city's inhabitants. Not too difficult, however, in view of the encyclopedic
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The Chemistry of Havoc
The Jerusalem Report
; The Double Bond: Primo Levi, a Biography By Carole Angier Farrar, Straus and Giroux 898 pages; $40 Carole Angier's weighty look at the life, and death, of Primo Levi gracefully reflects his unyielding intellect and spirit Matt Nesvisky JUST TELL, JUMPED or fell? So the cynic, or perhaps merely the
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REASON AS REVENGE: PRIMO LEVI AND WRITING THE HOLOCAUST.
Symposium
; One of the most striking aspects of Primo Levi's writing is the voice of reason that characterizes his literary descriptions of the Nazis and the Nazi genocide. This ability to write rationally both reflects Levi's moral response to the Shoah and becomes his method for recounting events that,
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Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Shofar
; Memory and Mastery: Primo Levi as Writer and Witness, edited by Roberta S. Kremer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 249 pp. $19.95. The scarcity of academic scholarship in English on the Italian writer, chemist, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi is regrettable and somewhat
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Chronicling a writer's despair.(Review)
Midstream
; The Double Bond: Primo Levi, by Carole Angier. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002, 898 pp., $40.00 In the introduction to this hefty tome, Carole Angier says that digging up the facts about Primo Levi from his Turin-based relatives, friends, and associates was a difficult exercise, given the
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An exile who stayed home A chemist, partisan, writer, Jew, and survivor -- Primo Levi was all of, and none of, these things
The Boston Globe
; PRIMO LEVI Tragedy of an Optimist By Myriam Anissimov. Overlook Press. 452 pp. Illustrated. $37.95. Stacy Schiff's biography of Vera Nabokov, "Vera," will be published by Random House this spring. To write is to lay oneself bare, held Primo Levi; this leaves his biographer in a bit of a bind. It
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Turin's Witness
The New York Jewish Week
; Primo Levi has been esteemed in Europe for decades. Now, nearly 20 years after his death, his reputation is growing in the U.S. TURIN, ITALY At a modest exhibition on "Jewish Life and Culture" in the Piedmont region, which the Turin Jewish community hosted during the Olympics in the hall of the
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Primo Levi, witness: Primo Levi's If This is a Man and reponses to the lager in Italy 1945-47
Judaism
; ROBERT S. GORDON AFTER ELEVEN MONTHS IN AUSCHWITZ-MONOWITZ AND TEN months wandering through war-tom central Europe, Primo Levi returned to Turin in October 1945. On his journey home and in Turin, he took to telling what had happened to friends, family, and strangers, and very soon-by December 1945
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Rising above the horror Theo Richmond on two complementary biographies of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Primo Levi by Ian Thomson Hutchinson, pounds 25, 624 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography by Carole Angier Viking, pounds 25, 898 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IAN THOMSON met Primo Levi just once, in 1987, on a sunlit day in Turin.
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Primo Levi--174517.
Midstream
; Primo Levi: A Life, by Ian Thomson. New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company, 2003, xviii + 583 pp., $32.50. On his tombstone we read his dates, his name, the number tattooed on his arm: 1919-1987 Primo Levi 174517 Levi arrived at Auschwitz on February 26, 1944; Russian troops
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