Centro Primo Levi Online Monthly
Published by permission, Counter Text Vol. 9, No. 2 Image: Funeral of Giuseppe Pinelli, the Italian anarchist worker murdered during a police interrogation in Milan, 1969,...
Chapoutot hits the mark when he describes, alongside a self-referential employer class, that of the jurists, “punctilious, precise, and expert”, that “decree after decree-law, meticolously deconstructed...
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...
Opening remarks at Third Annual Symposium on Primo Levi I feel both honored and inadequate for...
The Tragic, Enduring Relevance of Arendt’s Work on Statelness While Hannah Arendt is most known for her reflections on totalitarianism...
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,...