Opens in Turin the Primo Levi Institute for International Studies. Amos Luzzatto is appointed president.

The Primo Levi Institute for International Studies was officially created two weeks ago by the Compagnia di San Paolo, the Municipality of Turin, the Jewish Community of Turin, The Book, Music and Culture Foundation, and Primo Levi ’s children, Lisa and Renzo.

Director of the Institute is Fabio Levi and president Amos Luzzatto. The Institute seeks to become the main international reference for the study of Primo Levi ’s work collecting the writer’s personal papers, the manuscripts, as well as the vast body of studies inspired by his figure in all fields of knowledge.

The Institute’s emphasis on the historical, literary, and humanistic values expressed by Primo Levi in his work and public life, signals that its mission intends to go well beyond the academic and archival work to reach the new generations in Italy and across the world and ensure that they have access to the knowledge and critical tools that Primo Levi considered crucial to the preservation of a civil society.

The Primo Levi Institute will be housed in Turin in the area called “Quartieri Militari,” where many other important cultural and historical institutions have their offices, including the Istituto Storico della Resistenza, Museo Diffuso della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà, the Archivio Nazionale Cinematografico della Resistenza, the Istituto Gramsci di Torino, the Fondazione Vera Nocentini and the Istituto Salvemini.

The figure of Primo Levi infers an extraordinary international wheigh and enables an unprecedented reach to this prestigious cultural complex in Turin.