Estimating that he has devoted more than 6,000 emails to the Levi project, Weil brought in a wide range of collaborators. To oversee the new translations and work on some of the books, he ...

Three volumes, 3,000 pages: The Complete Works of Primo Levi, in its very girth and exhaustiveness, asserts a claim about the man whose oeuvre it collects.Best known for his Holocaust memoir, If ...

The Primo Levi link comes from Kahr's attempts to find descriptions of Perucca's character. In 1938, Italy imposed laws preventing Jewish scientists from undertaking any experimental project, ...

The great Italian writer Primo Levi is primarily known in this country for memoirs detailing ... So it seemed to me, and to Bob too, that if you were going to do this elaborate, huge project, ...

News about Primo Levi, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

NEW YORK — When Antony Sher gets into Primo Levi’s skin, it’s at a very particular time in the Italian writer’s life: 1945, the year Levi was a prisoner at Auschwitz. That experience ...

Primo Levi was born into a liberal Jewish family, and grew up in Turin, Italy (Credit: Archivio Fondazione CDEC, Milano) Few quotes embody the spirit of their author like this one, from Primo ...

When Primo Levi was liberated from Auschwitz in January 1945, ... Levi and the film also go through Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and even Germany before getting to Italy.

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 ...

In his new book Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, philosopher and Shoah scholar Berel Lang reminds us that Levi’s health had been in shambles for years, owing mostly to a prostate condition, the ...