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Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved: From Testimony to Historical Judgment

Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved: From Testimony to... Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved : From Testimony to Historical Judgment Jonathan Druker Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 12, Number 4, Summer 1994, pp. 47-58 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1994.0101 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/471799/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Primo Levi: From Testimony to Historical Judgment 47 PRIMO LEVI'S SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ AND THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED: FROM TESTIMONY TO HISTORICAL JUDGMENT by Jonathan Druker Jonathan Druker holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and currently teaches Italian at the University of Georgia. Introduction This essay traces Primo Levi's gradual development from concentration camp survivor and witness to historical and moral arbiter of the Holocaust. As one long committed to wider public recognition and comprehension of the Holocaust, Levi's perception of his role as a survivor-writer evolved with the passage of time and the historicization of the events. There are dramatic differences in content and rhetorical structure between his early and late Holocaust texts .which raise important questions about the relationship of survivor writing to post-Holocaust history. What effect does evolving historical perception, an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The Drowned and the Saved : From Testimony to Historical Judgment Jonathan Druker Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume 12, Number 4, Summer 1994, pp. 47-58 (Article) Published by Purdue University Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.1994.0101 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/471799/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 18:17 GMT from JHU Libraries Primo Levi: From Testimony to Historical Judgment 47 PRIMO LEVI'S SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ AND THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED: FROM TESTIMONY TO HISTORICAL JUDGMENT by Jonathan Druker Jonathan Druker holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and currently teaches Italian at the University of Georgia. Introduction This essay traces Primo Levi's gradual development from concentration camp survivor and witness to historical and moral arbiter of the Holocaust. As one long committed to wider public recognition and comprehension of the Holocaust, Levi's perception of his role as a survivor-writer evolved with the passage of time and the historicization of the events. There are dramatic differences in content and rhetorical structure between his early and late Holocaust texts .which raise important questions about the relationship of survivor writing to post-Holocaust history. What effect does evolving historical perception, an

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