January 13, 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Jan 13 2008

A special tribute to Primo Levi, the author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, featuring editor Robert Gordon, translator Ann Goldstein, plus readings and archival sound.

Episode segments
  • January 13, 2008
    Arts & Culture, Literature

    Robert Gordon is editor of The Auschwitz Report , The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi and The Voice of Memory: Interviews 1961-1987 by Primo Levi.  He is a reader in modern Italian culture at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

    Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker and the editor and co-translator of A Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi. 

    Hanon Reznikov is a playwright, director and actor and the co-artistic director with Judith Malina of The Living Theatre .
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    A special tribute to the Italian Jewish author and Auschwitz survivor, Primo Levi, author of such remarkable works as Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved. The broadcast features readings from those works as well the newly published short story collection, A Tranquil Star and a fascinating 1946 document prepared for the Soviet army by Levi, The Auschwitz Report., plus excerpts from an English language interview with Levi from the BBC.