A Presentation of
the Santa Fe Distinguished Lecture Series and
the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival.

The much sought after lecturer Jeremy Dauber of Columbia University starts our Jews, the Vatican, and the Holocaust series with a webinar talk on the life and work of the Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi who was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Levi survived and went on to describe the dehumanization of that genocide with a depth of philosophical understanding of the human condition unmatched by any other writer of the Holocaust. Philip Roth calls Levi’s book, Surviving Auschwitz, the one book from the twentieth century that everyone should read. Rather than recount the horrors of life in the Nazi death camps, which Levi notes have been described by others, he explains what led to the creation of the death camps and the deadly consequences that follow when we believe “every stranger is an enemy”.