The Life and Texts of Edith Stein

Edith Stein was born to a Jewish family in Breslau on October 12, 1891; however she became an atheist in 1906; she converted to Catholicism in 1922. Thus she was a convert, a brilliant phenomenologist, and an important commentator on the place of women in Germany in the 1930s. When Nazism gripped the nation and she could no longer work or promote the faith, she entered the Carmelite monastery in Cologne where she continued to write her philosophical treatises. She eventually fled to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Holland; however the Nazis ultimately picked her up and took her to Auschwitz where she died for her faith on August 9, 1942.  Her feast day is August 9.

1. Text of Stein's 1933 letter to Pope Pius XI

   Reference Lists and Bibliographies

   • Sarah Borden's 2008 Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Edith Stein. Sarah Borden has done a major up-grading of her work.
   • A Chronology of Stein's Writings by Marianne Sawicki    When you get to the link, just keep hitting [enter], then [cancel] until it lets you in.
   • Critical edition of the writings of Edith Stein
   • Edith Stein's Texts On Line -- The Hidden Life

   Biographies

   • A brief chronology
   • A 1952 book review by Evelyn Waugh of a Stein biography
   • Baltimore Catholic Review article on Stein's Canonization

   Articles Concerning Jewish Christian Relations

   • Advisory on the Implications for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Canonization of Edith Stein
   • This site is concerned with issues in the on-going Christian-Jewish dialogue
   • Dabru Emet "A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity"

   Other Related Texts

   • Baltimore Catholic Review article on Baltimore Carmel's Edith Stein Lecture Series
   • The canonization message of John Paul II
   • Edith Stein, as Teacher of Liturgical Spirituality 
   • Edith Stein Co-Patroness of Europe an apostolic letter by Pope John Paul II
   • "Edith Stein's Works in The Husserl Homepage, secondary sources
   • Edmund Husserl in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
   • The Pre-Baptismal Philosophy of Edith Stein by Marianne Sawicki, PhD. This lecture was delivered at the Baltimore Carmel on 11/13/98.

   Other interesting items

   • Carmelite publications
   • Edith Stein devotional articles
     
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