Editing Primo Levi (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Holocaust writing ===
Levi is frequently referred to as a "Holocaust writer",<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |last=TAGLIABUE |first=JOHN |date=1987-04-12 |title=Primo Levi, Holocaust Writer is Dead at 67 |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0731.html |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kirsch |first=Adam |date=2015-09-15 |title=Primo Levi's Unlikely Suicide Haunts His Lasting Work |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/primo-levis-complete-works |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Tablet}}</ref> a label he disliked.<ref name=":12">{{Cite magazine |title=Why Do We View Primo Levi's Work Through the Prism of His Death? |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/115750/view-primo-levis-work-prism-death |access-date=2024-06-10 |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-01-13 |title=Primo Levi's First Draft Of History |url=https://forward.com/culture/9817/primo-levi-s-first-draft-of-history/ |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref> However, he is considered to have authored some of the most important writing about the Holocaust,<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rothberg |first1=Michael |last2=Druker |first2=Jonathan |date=2009 |title=A Secular Alternative: Primo Levi's Place in American Holocaust Discourse |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/shofar.28.1.104 |journal=Shofar |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=104–126 |jstor=10.5703/shofar.28.1.104 |issn=0882-8539}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-04-15 |title=New Primo Levi Stories Published |url=https://www.wusf.org/2007-04-15/new-primo-levi-stories-published |access-date=2024-06-11 |website=WUSF |language=en}}</ref> which has greatly contributed to the memory and understanding of that disaster.<ref name=":12" /> [[Philip Roth]] eulogized him as someone who "set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose".<ref name=":02" /> [[Martin Amis]] has credited Levi's work with assisting him in writing his own novel, ''[[The Zone of Interest (novel)|The Zone of Interest]]'', calling him "the visionary of the Holocaust, its presiding spirit and the most perceptive of all writers on this subject."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-13 |title=Martin Amis and Ian Thomson on the legacy of Primo Levi |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/writersandcompany/martin-amis-and-ian-thomson-on-the-legacy-of-primo-levi-1.5395914 |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=CBC Radio}}</ref>

=== Posthumous honours ===
* In 1995, five health and human rights organizations established the [[Primo Levi Center]] in Paris to provide services to torture survivors. The center was named for Levi because his name is "synonymous with the refusal of inhuman, cruel and degrading treatment".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gilles van Kote |date=3 September 2014 |title=L'indispensable Centre Primo-Levi |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/projet/article/2014/09/03/l-indispensable-centre-primo-levi_4480694_4480658.html |language=fr |publisher=LeMonde.fr |issn=1950-6244 |access-date=2015-10-13 |periodical=Le Monde.fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Our history |url=https://primolevi.org/en/our-history |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=Centre Primo Levi |language=en-US}}</ref> 
* The Primo Levi Center, a non-profit organisation dedicated to studying the history and culture of Italian Jewry, was established in New York City in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Primo Levi |url=https://www.primolevicenter.org/about-page |access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>
* In 2008, the City of Turin and other partners established the International Primo Levi Studies Center to preserve and promote Levi's legacy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-07-07 |title=Who we are |url=https://www.primolevi.it/en/chi-siamo |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi}}</ref>
* Beginning in 2017, the Primo Levi Prize has been awarded by the [[German Chemical Society]] and the [[Italian Chemical Society]] to honour chemists for their commitment to human rights.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Primo Levi Prize |url=https://en.gdch.de/gdch/prizes-and-awards/gdch-awards/primo-levi-prize.html#:~:text=The%20Primo%20Levi%20Prize%20honors,particularly%20committed%20to%20humanitarian%20goals. |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V. |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goedecke |first=Catharina |date=2023-09-04 |title=Primo Levi Prize for Henning Hopf |url=https://www.chemistryviews.org/primo-levi-prize-for-henning-hopf/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=ChemistryViews |language=en-US}}</ref>
* In 2019, Levi's 100th birthday was commemorated throughout the world, including the United States,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-29 |title=Italy commemorates the 2019 International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the USA on the centenary of Primo Levi's birth. |url=https://ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/en/news/dall_ambasciata/2019/01/l-italia-commemora-negli-usa-la-2/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=ambwashingtondc.esteri.it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-17 |title=Primo Levi at 100 |url=https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/primo-levi-100th-anniversary/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Primo Levi Center |language=en-US}}</ref> Portugal,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-04 |title=Lisbon: celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Primo Levi |url=https://www.esteri.it/en/sala_stampa/archivionotizie/retediplomatica/2019/07/lisbona-celebrazioni-centenario-primo-levi-2/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale}}</ref> and Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2019-04-22 |title=Primo Levi's Centennial Program Presented in Turin |url=https://moked.it/international/2019/04/22/culture-primo-levis-centennial-program-presented-turin/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Pagine Ebraiche International |language=en-US}}</ref>
* The SIVA factory has been turned into the Museo della Chimica, a chemistry museum for children. Levi's former office now holds an exhibit about his life.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Visita il museo |url=https://www.mu-ch.it/visita-il-museo/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Museo della Chimica |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-05-18 |title=Factory where Primo Levi worked becomes museum |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/factory-where-primo-levi-worked-becomes-museum/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |work=The Times of Israel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-06-30 |title=Do not NOT touch: the new MU-CH Chemistry Museum is open |url=https://ettsolutions.com/en/much-chemistry-museum-opening/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=ETT |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== In popular culture ===
* ''Till My Tale is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag'' (1999), uses a part of the quatrain by Coleridge quoted by Levi in ''The Drowned and the Saved'' as its title.
* [[Christopher Hitchens]]' book ''[[The Portable Atheist]]'', a collection of extracts of [[atheist]] texts, is dedicated to the memory of Levi, "who had the moral fortitude to refuse false consolation even while enduring the 'selection' process in Auschwitz". The dedication quotes Levi in ''[[The Drowned and the Saved]]'', asserting, "I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day."<ref>Hitchens, ''The Portable Atheist''.</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Primo Levi |date=1986 |title=sommersi e i salvati |trans-title=The Drowned and the Saved |url=https://www.supersummary.com/the-drowned-and-the-saved/summary/ |access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>
* A quotation from Levi appears on the sleeve of the second album by the Welsh rock band [[Manic Street Preachers]], titled ''[[Gold Against the Soul]]''. The quote is from Levi's poem "Song of Those Who Died in Vain".<ref>{{cite web |date=8 September 2009 |title=Manic Street Preachers interview, Raw Soup 1993 (higher quality) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLh-7jTSo8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/IzLh-7jTSo8 |archive-date=2021-12-11 |access-date=19 May 2014 |website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Peters |first=Mathijs |title=Popular Music, Critique and Manic Street Preachers |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2020 |isbn= |pages=179}}</ref>
* [[David Blaine]] has Primo Levi's Auschwitz camp number, 174517, tattooed on his left forearm.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Belkin |first=Douglas |date=2004-08-15 |title=Jews With Tattoos |url=https://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/08/15/jews_with_tattoos/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040818184304/https://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/08/15/jews_with_tattoos/ |archive-date=2004-08-18 |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref>
* In [[Lavie Tidhar]]'s novel, ''A Man Lies Dreaming'', the protagonist encounters Levi and [[Yehiel De-Nur|Ka-Tzetnik]] in Auschwitz and witnesses them discuss how they should write about the Holocaust. Levi says they should be "accurate and dispassionate" while [[Yehiel De-Nur|Ka-Tzetnik]] advocates "the language of [...] pulp".<ref>{{cite web |author=Mahvesh Murad |date=28 October 2014 |title=Holocaust Noir: A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar |url=http://www.tor.com/2014/10/28/holocaust-noir-a-man-lies-dreaming-by-lavie-tidhar/ |access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tidhar |first=Lavie |title=A Man Lies Dreaming |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-444-76296-9 |location=London |chapter=Chapter 8}}</ref>
*In the pilot episode of ''[[Black Earth Rising]]'', Rwandan genocide survivor Kate Ashby has a therapy session addressing her survivors' guilt and suicide attempt. She tells her therapist that she has read the Primo Levi book he'd assigned her and that if she chooses to attempt suicide, she'll "take a leaf out of Mr Levi's book and jump straight out the window."
*The last track on ''[[The Noise (album)|The Noise]]'' by [[Peter Hammill]] is entitled "Primo on the Parapet".<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Noise - Peter Hammill |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-noise-mw0000454136 |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=AllMusic}}</ref>