Primo Levi nel contesto della tradizione ebraica italiana, dell'Italia fascista e della shoah
Biasin, Gian Paolo. "Till My Ghastly Tale Is Told: Levi's Moral Discourse from Se questo č un uomo to I sommersi e i salvati. " In Reason and Light. Essays on Primo Levi. Ed. Susan Tarrow. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Camon, Ferdinando. "Conversations with Primo Levi. Trans. John Shepley. Marlboro,
Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1989. (Original title: Autoritratto di Primo Levi. Padova: Edizioni
Nord-Est, 1987.) One of Levi's last and most penetrating interviews before his death. The
English version contains an essay in which Camon questions whether Primo Levi's death
resulted from suicide.
Cannon, Joann. "Canon-Formation and Reception in Contemporary Italy: The Case of
Primo Levi." Italica 69.2 (Spring 1992): 30-44. This study looks at the emergence of
Primo Levi as a writer and the various uses to which his texts may be put.
Epstein, Adam. "Primo Levi and the Language of Atrocity." Bulletin of the
Society for Italian Studies 20 (1987):31-38.
Feig, Kormillyn G. Hitter's Death Camps. The Sanity of Madness. New York & London:
Holmes and Meier, 1979. Of particular interest are the pages that focus on Auschwitz,
333-69.
Frassica, Pietro, ed. Primo Levi as Witness: Proceedings of a Symposium held at Princeton
University. Fiesole: Casalini, 1990. Contains essays by G. P. Biasin, C. Cases, G.
Einaudi, F. Ferrucci, L. Fontanella, C. Segre, A. Stille, G. Tesio, and G. Lagorio.
Gilman, Sander L. "To Quote Primo Levi: 'Redest keyn jiddisch, bist nit kejn jid'
['If you don't speak Yiddish, you're not a Jew']" Prooftexts, a Journal of Jewish
Literary History 9.2 (1989): 139-60. This study centers on the artistic values Levi
attributes to the Italian, Yiddish, and Hebrew languages.
Gunzburg, Lynn M. "Down Among the Dead Men: Levi and Dante in Hell." Modern
Language Studies 16.1 (1986): 10-28.
Howe, Irving. Introduction. "Primo Levi: An Appreciation." If Not Now, When? New
York: Summit Books, 1985. 3-16. An instrumental document for general information on Levi,
as seen from the perspective of an American writer.
Hughes, Stuart H. Prisoners of Hope. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. A
significant study on the Jews in Italy and on the literary contributions of prominent
Italian Jewish writers such as P. Levi, Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio Bassani,
Carlo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg.
Michaelis, Meir. Mussolini and the Jews. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1978. Useful document for
a clearer understanding of the historical and political situation of the Jews in Italy
during Fascism.
Mitgang, Herbert. "Authors Newly Make the Holocaust Connection." New York Times,
17 March 1990, sec. "Words and Image." The author, in a review of a book on the
Holocaust, states that a Mr. Kazin calls Levi "one of the two greatest postwar
writers (with Italo Calvino being the other) Italy has produced."
Motola, Gabriel. "Primo Levi. The Auschwitz Experience." Southwest Review 72
(Spring 1987): 258-69. An interesting, although brief, analysis of Survival in Auschwitz
and The Reawakening.
Ozick, Cynthia. "Primo Levi's Suicide Note." Metaphor & Memory. New York:
Knopf, 1989, 34-48. Of particular interest are Ms. Ozick's comments on Levi's "anger'
evidenced in The Drowned and the Saved.
Patai, Raphael. The Jewish Mind. New York: Scribner's, 1977. A study of Jewish traditions
and historical information on the Jews.
Roth, Cecil. The History of the Jews of Italy. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of
America, 1946. An indispensable document on the Jews in Italy.
Roth, Philip. "A Man Saved by His Skills." New York Times Book Review, 12
October 1986. Possibly the most important interview with Primo Levi in English.
Sodi, Risa. "An Interview with Primo Levi." Partisan Review 54.3 (1987): 355-66.
A revealing interview in which Levi tells of his writing experience
Steiner, George. "The Hollow Miracle." Language and Science. New York: Atheneum,
1967. An outstanding essay on the Holocaust's effect on language.
Styron, William. "Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died." New York Times, 19
December 1988, sec. A: 17. An essay in which the author speculates on the reasons why
Primo Levi may have commited suicide.
Tarrow, Susan, ed. Reason and Light. Essays on Primo Levi. Cornell Studies in
International Affairs [Western Societies Papers 25. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1990]. Essays on Primo Levi by G. P. Biasin, J. Cannon, R. Feldman, S. Gilman, L.
Gunzberg, I. Klein, F. Girelli- Carasi, N. Harrowitz, and C. Segrč, and a testimony by
Ruth Feldman and J. Wolsky.
Zuccotti, Susan. The Italians and the Holocaust. Persecution, Rescue, Survival. New York:
Basic Books, 1987. The most extensive study, with ample data and statistics, of the events
surrounding the plight of the Jews in Italy during the years of Fascism and subsequent
German occupation.
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