CONTENTS

There Is No Other Adam in the Neighborhood

Horseshoe Nails

Bureau of Vital Statistics

Let’s See What Has Come True

Our First Ancestors Weren’t Animals

Who Has Courage in Jerusalem?

The Difficult Journey of Truth

A Rebirth

The Daring People of the Ghetto

Barbarians of the Swastika

A Mysterious Sensibility

The Pharaoh with the Swastika

Remembrance of a Righteous Man

Leonardo De Benedetti

A Mighty River That Sins by Excess

Collectors of Tortures

The Brute Power

Note on Kafka’s The Trial

A Park Dedicated to Emanuele Artom

The Path of a Jewish Writer

The Summer for a Book

Asymmetry and Life

Foreword to Diary of a Jewish Boy During the Second World War by Marek Herman

Foreword to People in Auschwitz by Hermann Langbein

Homage to an Unknown Reporter

Foreword to Jews in Turin

The Last Christmas of the War

Can Poetry Get Along with the Computer?

Why Revisit These Images

Tell Me If This Is a Fortunate Jew

With the Key of Science

Foreword to Commandant of Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss

Foreword to The Jews of Eastern Europe from Utopia to Revolt

What Burned in Space

Letter to the Editor of Commentary

When They Drank Methanol in the Lager

The TV Fans from Delta Cep.

The Plague Has No Borders

A Small Woman with a Regal Bearing

The Spider’s Secret

I Would Prohibit It

Fra Diavolo on the Po

Preface to Moments of Reprieve

Buck of the Wolves

The Black Hole of Auschwitz

Nose to Nose: A Date with Love in the Dark

Adam’s Clay

Live from Our Intestine: Escherichia Coli

The Seagull of Chivasso

The Giraffe in the Zoo

Love on the Web

Calvino, Queneau, and the Sciences

Foreword to Offended Life

“Our Generation . . .”

Foreword to Writings in Memory of Daniele Levi

Foreword to Broken Future by Lidia Beccaria Rolfi and Bruno Maida