""No human experience is without meaning or unworthy of analysis,'' writes Levinot even the ``gigantic biological and social experiment that was Auschwitz.'' And few ...

Levi's experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans' capacity for extreme violence. In September 1943, Primo Levi took to the mountains in northwest Italy to escape ...

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 ...

Proof, if it were needed, that Primo Levi was not just a valuable Holocaust memoirist but a great 20th-century writer came last year in the magisterial form of his Complete Works—three slipcased ...

In January 1985, a laudatory New York Review of Books review of Primo Levi’s “The Periodic Table” sent me straight to my local bookstore for a copy, which I devoured in one or two sittings. I’d never ...

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 still ...

Primo Levi is a special case. He is not simply a great 20th-century writer, like Proust or Joyce or Eliot, who have all been deeply and repeatedly explored. Levi was an Italian Jew, born in Turin in ...

Prisoner 174517 had a recurrent nightmare at Auschwitz. He dreamed that he had survived, returned home and told his family about his experience —yet nobody listened. That same prisoner, Primo Levi, ...

Manuela Paul had the precious documents in a plastic folder, inside an artist’s satchel, inside a Whole Foods shopping bag, which she kept at her side the entire bus ride from New York to Washington.

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 ...

Primo Levi was born in 1919 in Turin, capital of Piedmont in northwestern Italy, into a family that had settled there about 1500, after the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain. Encouraged by ...

His will to bear witness, and record the hellish particularity of the Holocaust, helped save his life in Auschwitz. It also inspired the writing he will be remembered for. Primo Levi is the rare ...