Israel Must Neither Reward Nor Excessively Punish Palestinian Terror
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December 2, 2015
For Levi, the core of Nazi barbarism was its reduction of unique human beings to anonymous things.
The Italian writer and scientist Primo Levi (1919-1987), best known for his Auschwitz memoir, If This Is a Man (English title: Survival in Auschwitz), was also a prolific author of essays, short stories, and other works. In his review of the newly released Complete Works of Primo Levi, Edward Mendelson writes about Levi’s moral understanding of the universe, which underlay his work both as a writer and as a chemist:
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