Primo Levi

Primo Levi

Writer and chemist · 1919–1987

Sephardic ancestry · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Turin-born chemist and writer from a Piedmontese Jewish family whose ancestors came from Spain. A survivor of Auschwitz, he wrote If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table, among the most important works of Holocaust literature.

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