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Items with the tag:

primo levi

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Excerpt: The Escape Artist

Jonathan Freed­land
December 5, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin
Peter Orner
From the Journal

The Ital­ian­ist: An Inter­view with Ann Gold­stein on Trans­lat­ing Pri­mo Lev­i’s Work

Mer­rill Leffler
July 29, 2019
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Pri­mo Levi’s Resis­tance: Rebels and Col­lab­o­ra­tors in Occu­pied Italy
Sergio Luzzatto; Frederika Randall, trans.
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The Com­plete Works of Pri­mo Levi
Primo Levi; Ann Goldstein, ed.
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The Jews and the Sec­ond World War: A Read­ing List

Ear­li­er this week, Gwen Edel­man wrote about build­ing a walled ghet­to in the mid­dle of a city and a recent vis­it to War­saw. Her most recent nov­el, The…
Gwen Edel­man
April 25, 2014
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Pri­mo Levi: The Mat­ter of a Life
Berel Lang
Essay

When a Sto­ry is Born Form First

Tehi­la Lieber­man is the author of the short sto­ry col­lec­tion Venus in the After­noon. She is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing a nov­el enti­tled ​“The Last Holy Man”. She will…
Tehi­la Lieberman
November 19, 2012
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Pri­mo Levi

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterPri­mo Levi, who would have been 93 today, was an Ital­ian Jew­ish writer and chemist who pub­lished across a range of gen­res, includ­ing…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
July 31, 2012
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Pri­mo Lev­i’s Uni­verse: A Writer’s Journey
Sam Magavern; Jonathan Rosen, fwd.; Risa Sodi, aftwd.

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