Michael J. Feuer
By Michael J. Feuer
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Culture Essays Examine Primo Levi’s Humanism
Answering Auschwitz: Primo Levi’s Science and Humanism After the Fall Stanislao Pugliese, Editor Fordham University Press, 224 pages, $65 Mass deportation of European Jews to the killing metropolis of Auschwitz began in spring of 1942. By January of 1945, more than a million Jews had been murdered there by gas, torture, starvation, medical experimentation and…
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Culture Encounter With Alekhine
My father, Otto Feuer, had been a chess champion (he won the Belgian title in 1936), and his hero had always been the Russian chess champion Alexander Alekhine. One day, in the Buchenwald latrine, Otto came upon what he thought was a miracle of sorts: There on the ground was a page from a recent…
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