Wilde, Oscar, xix
Wilson, Edmund, 4, 8, 235
wine, 16, 26, 162
“With Jewish Writers in Siberia” (Turner), 280
witness, bearing, 5, 7, 223, 257
wolves, 16, 19–21, 24, 36, 48, 98, 339–40; in Silone’s work, 20, 102, 137
World Apart, A (Herling), 226, 243
World Peace Council, 201
World War I, 42, 46, 60–64, 70, 117, 299; moral catastrophes and, 195; Mr. Laracy in, 163, 166
World War II, 95, 103, 132, 134, 143–62, 209, 237, 241, 243, 338; bombing in, 90, 167–68, 194; Grass in, 325; Katyn forest massacre in, 206; OSS and, 11, 143, 156–61, 174, 247; Silone’s works and, 119, 136
Wort, Das, Silone’s open letter to, 152
Wright, Richard, 199, 218
“Writer Against the State, The” (Silone), 227
Wroclaw, Communist intellectuals’ meeting in (1948), 201
Yad Vashem, 263, 332
Yiddish, 280–81, 376n–77n
Yugoslavia, 159, 215–16, 222, 224, 226
Zaccaria, Cesare, 198
Zauri, Francesco, 35, 192–94
Zauri, Giuseppe, 35
Zauri, Mrs., 35, 192–94
Zevi, Bruno, 198
Zhdanov, Andrei, 225
Zimmerwald, 61
Zinoviev, Grigori E., 70
Zinoviev-Kamanev trial, 102
Zito, Carmelo, 213
Zola, Émile, 308
Zurich, 68, 88, 125; Austrian refugees in, 130, 132; Caffé Odeon in, 132; Darina in, 132, 166, 168–71; German refugees in, 132; Libreria Internazionale in, 100; Museumgesellschaft in, 132, 168; Platone in, 314–18; PSI Foreign Office (Centro Estero) in, 143–48, 155, 156, 170, 171, 247; Silone in, 15, 90, 94, 99, 105, 106, 109–10, 117, 130–32, 136, 141, 143, 225–26, 280, 311, 315–20; writers’ meeting in (July 1956), 225
Zweig, Stefan, 94, 139, 273
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