(Primo Levi)
A highly anticipated lecture is coming to the Jewish Community Center (3200 California Street) on November 2nd at 7:00PM. The event is a Germanacos Lecture and will show off an all-star cast which includes: Anne Germanacos, who runs the Germanacos Foundation; Ann Goldstein, editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi; Robert Hass, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997; Adam Kirsch, an author of two collections of poetry and several other books as well as columnist for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books; Richard Rodriguez, author of Hunger of Memory, Brown, and Days of Obligation.
For those interested in European history, Italian literature, humanities and beyond, this lecture is sure to be engrossing. You can purchase tickets here.
(Primo Levi’s classics entitled “If This is a Man” and “The Truce”)
Turin native Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer who survived internment at the Nazi Auschwitz extermination camp. His writing bears witness to the atrocities committed to innocent people during the Holocaust; he also spoke tirelessly during his life of his experiences. Mr Levi’s eloquent and stark recounting of the misery of Nazism endures beyond his own passing and serves as a reminder that never again should we allow hate and violence to so completely blind us. If you haven’t read Levi, check out If This is a Man and The Truce, upon which tonight’s screening is based. You can order them here.