Entering motherhood — and an obsession with the works of an Italian Jewish literary hero

Writer Emily Tamkin reflects on new motherhood while reading Primo Levi’s works. His insights on dignity, memory, and survival offered comfort and purpose as she began parenting.

Reading Levi aloud to her child became a symbolic act of passing on Jewish memory and resilience.

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