The Talking Dead
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
On ‘Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the Medieval Mediterranean’ by Karla Malette (The University of Chicago Press, 2021) Lives of the Great Languages is – and…
Elsa Morante. Excerpts from La Storia, remembering October 16, 1943 Not even from her mother had she ever heard this denomination “Aryans”; in fact, the de-nomination of Jews itself, for…
“If you no longer want to believe the truth, nobody will want to believe you.” Zelman Lewental, prisoner of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, quoted in Franco Fortini, “I cani del Sinai”. …
Should we assume, as we usually assume in ordinary parlance, that the word “symbol” signifies something...
In the chapter Phosphorus in the Periodic Table Levi tells us of a love story that...
Fascist Antisemitism and Jewish-Italian Relations in the United States Courtesy American Jewish Archives Journal, 56...
I first met Primo Levi in February 1963, a month before the release of his book...
Levi’s experience as a partisan—and the execution of two teenage boys—showed him humans’ capacity for extreme...
The Italian Section of the Voice of America during WWII On the evening of January 20,...
In this conversation Judge Guido Calabresi, a long time friend of Centro Primo Levi, shares stories...
Archaeologists reveal secrets of Roman prison that held both Christian saints and Jewish rebels The Tullianum...