Reading Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, about survivors of the World War II death camps, gave the author Daniel Genis humility: “The fact that much worse than I experienced was suffered by innocent people in The Drowned and the Saved made my flicker of self-pity laughable.”
In his memoir 'Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison,' Daniel Genis tells how voracious reading and finding his Jewish identity saved his life in more ways than one
The Russian Samovar in Manhattan became a hub for artists and writers far from home, drawing eminent regulars like Joseph Brodsky and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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