“More than any other country, Israel must live.”

Pankaj Mishra takes on Primo Levi.

A forgotten chronicler of the Holocaust in Italy.

In his own view, he became a Jew at Auschwitz, and a Jewish writer after writing about it.

Ruffling sensibilities.

For Levi, the core of Nazi barbarism was its reduction of unique human beings to anonymous things.

And was it really a suicide?

A reflection on a mother’s recollections of the Holocaust.