Moments of Reprieve

Moments of Reprieve
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781501167652

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In this collection of essays based on his time as a Jewish prisoner in the Nazi camps, Primo Levi creates a series of sketches of the people he met who retained their humanity even in the most inhumane circumstances. Having already written two memoirs of his survival at Auschwitz, Levi knew there was still more left untold. Collected in this book are stray vignettes of fifteen individuals Levi met during his imprisonment. Whether it was the young Romani man who smuggled a creased photo of his bride past the camp guards or the starving prisoner who still insisted on fasting on Yom Kippur, the memory of these individuals stayed with Levi for long after. They represent for him “bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve.” Neither simple heroes nor victims, but people who never lost sight of their humanity in the face of unimaginable suffering. Written with the author’s signature humility and intelligence, Moments of Reprieve shines with lyricism and insight. Nearly forty years after their publication, Levi’s words remain as beautiful as they are necessary. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.

If Not Now When

If Not Now  When
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1995-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140188932

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“In Levi’s writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential.” —Saul Bellow A Penguin Classic In the final days of World War II, a courageous band of Jewish partisans makes its way from Russia to Italy, moving toward the ultimate goal of Palestine. Based on a true story, If Not Now, When? chronicles their adventures as they wage a personal war of revenge against the Nazis: blowing up trains, rescuing the last victims of concentration camps, scoring victories in the face of unspeakable devastation. Primo Levi captures the landscape and the people of Eastern Europe in vivid detail, depicting as well the terrible bleakness of war-ridden Europe. But finally, what he gives us is a tribute to the strength and ingenuity of the human spirit. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Reawakening La Tregua

The Reawakening  La Tregua
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1965
Genre: Authors, Italian
ISBN: UOM:39015054083020

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The Complete Works of Primo Levi

The Complete Works of Primo Levi
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 3008
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781631492068

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2015 Washington Post Notable Book The Complete Works of Primo Levi, which includes seminal works like If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, finally gathers all fourteen of Levi’s books—memoirs, essays, poetry, commentary, and fiction—into three slipcased volumes. Primo Levi, the Italian-born chemist once described by Philip Roth as that “quicksilver little woodland creature enlivened by the forest’s most astute intelligence,” has largely been considered a heroic figure in the annals of twentieth-century literature for If This Is a Man, his haunting account of Auschwitz. Yet Levi’s body of work extends considerably beyond his experience as a survivor. Now, the transformation of Levi from Holocaust memoirist to one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers culminates in this publication of The Complete Works of Primo Levi. This magisterial collection finally gathers all of Levi’s fourteen books—memoirs, essays, poetry, and fiction—into three slip-cased volumes. Thirteen of the books feature new translations, and the other is newly revised by the original translator. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison introduces Levi’s writing as a “triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction.” The appearance of this historic publication will occasion a major reappraisal of “one of the most valuable writers of our time” (Alfred Kazin). The Complete Works of Primo Levi features all new translations of: The Periodic Table, The Drowned and the Saved, The Truce, Natural Histories, Flaw of Form, The Wrench, Lilith, Other People’s Trades, and If Not Now, When?—as well as all of Levi’s poems, essays, and other nonfiction work, some of which have never appeared before in English.

Moments of Reprieve

Moments of Reprieve
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:59404204

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Survival in Auschwitz And The Reawakening

Survival in Auschwitz   And  The Reawakening
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 552
Release: 1986
Genre: Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
ISBN: UOM:39015046830967

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The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir.

Moments of Reprieve

Moments of Reprieve
Author: Primo Levi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2005
Genre: Authors, Italian
ISBN: OCLC:939629117

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These stories recount the rare moments during the author's stark existence in Auschwitz when he came across an act of sheer beauty, an instant of light in the grey monotone, when someone could and did behave with human decency.

Spring s End

Spring s End
Author: John Freund
Publsiher: Azrieli Holocaust Survivor
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: UOM:39015077678798

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Stories about the holocaust.