Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi's Science and Humanism after the Fall

Contributors

c o n t r i b u t o r s Johan Åhr is Assistant Professor of History at Hofstra University, where he teaches courses on modern continental Europe, particularly Germany. He is currently publishing on the city of Berlin and the significance of the monument to historical debate and critical discourse. See his ‘‘Memory and Mourning in Berlin: On Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust-Mahnmal (2005),’’ Modern Judaism 28 (2008), and ‘‘Hans Haacke Versus the Myth of Volk,’’ Journal of War and Culture Studies (May 2010). Marie L. Baird is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Theology at Duquesne University. Her research interests include the theology of suffering, the philosophies of Emmanuel Levinas and Eric Voegelin, spirituality and mysticism, and the role of ethics in theology and spirituality after the Holocaust. The title of her first book is On the Side of the Angels: Ethics and Post-Holocaust Spirituality. Her current research is focused on the phenomenology of bearing witness. Terri Bowman received a bachelor of arts degree from Hofstra University . As a student of history and fine arts, she created the charcoal drawings in the epilogue to this book while exploring both the writings of Primo Levi and the use of art as therapy throughout the Holocaust. She lives in Boston, where she is currently pursuing a career in art therapy and education. Jonathan Druker is Associate Professor of Italian at Illinois State University , where he also teaches Holocaust literature. He has contributed articles on Primo Levi to Italica, Clio, and Italian Culture and has written three essays for Modern Language Association publications on how to teach Levi’s texts. He also coauthored an essay with Michael Rothberg on Levi’s reception in the United States, published in Shofar. Druker’s book Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz: Posthumanist Reflections was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. The essay in this collection is adapted from that book. 295 296 Contributors Joseph Farrell is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Strathclyde , in Glasgow, Scotland. His main research interests are in the fields of Sicilian culture and theater history. He is author of Leonardo Sciascia and Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the Revolution. The History of Italian Theatre, coedited with Paolo Puppa, was published by Cambridge University Press. In addition, he has edited volumes of essays on Carlo Goldoni, Dario Fo, Primo Levi, Carlo Levi and the Mafia. He has also produced editions of Accidental Death of an Anarchist and of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Massimo Giuliani is Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophical Hermeneutics at the University of Trent, Italy. He received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and taught for several years in the United States. He is a member of the scientific boards of the Maimonides Foundation in Milan and the Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah in Ferrara . Among his most recent books are Theological Implications of the Shoah, A Centaur in Auschwitz: Reflections on Primo Levi’s Thinking, Il pensiero ebraico contemporaneo, Le tende di Abramo. Ebraismo, cristianesimo, islam: interpretare un’eredità comune, and Eros in esilio. Letture teologico-politiche del Cantico dei cantici. He regularly writes for a national Italian newspaper and the journals Humanitas and Sefer. Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alessandro Baricco, Elena Ferrante, and Roberto Calasso, and she is currently editing the Complete Works of Primo Levi in English for Norton. She has been the recipient of several prizes, including the PEN Renato Poggiolo Prize and an award from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nancy Harrowitz is Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University. She has published widely on the topics of anti-Semitism and misogyny in the modern period, including Antisemitism , Misogyny and The Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao (1994), and two edited collections: Tainted Greatness: Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes (1994) and Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (1995, coedited with Barbara Hyams). She is completing a book entitled Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor. Ilona Klein is Associate Professor of Italian at Brigham Young University . Her scholarly interests and publications focus on Italian Romanticism , paleography, the Shoah, Primo Levi, and the personal memoirs of Jewish concentration camp prisoners. 297 Contributors William...