In this rare New York appearance, Ernesto Ferrero, longtime editor of Levi’s work, offers new insight into Levi’s intellectual and moral concerns. “Is this a man? The German, the good family man who belongs to the most civilized country in Europe, the country which produced Bach and Goethe, yet plans the extermination with bureaucratic rigor? Is it the Jewish prisoner who becomes a kapo, collaborating to gain a few more days of life? Was Auschwitz an accident in history, and as such cannot be replicated?”
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