Check Your Mirrors

Continuing with observance of National Poetry Month, this week’s spotlight is on an Italian Jew who, as a chemist by trade, survived a WWII concentration camp. During his year at Auschwitz, Primo Levi was a slave laborer. After his release in 1945, he found writing vital to his survival. In her article Hear and Act, Rabbi Dorothy A. Richman says Levi framed these verses around the Shema, often…