Life in a Jewish Family: Edith Stein - An Autobiography (Collected Works of Edith Stein, Vol 1) - Softcover

Stein, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935216049 ISBN 13: 9780935216042

Publisher: ICS Publications, 1999

Synopsis

This book contains Edith Stein's autobiography, with map and 11 pages of photos.
This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and a young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested and deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.
Edith Stein is one of the most significant German women of our century. At the age of twenty-five she became the first assistant to the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. She was much in demand as a writer-lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits, until she died along with so many other Jewish people in the Holocaust.
By making this story available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eye-witness account of persons and activities on the scene at the time when psychology and philosophy became separate disciplines. A preface, foreword, and afterword to Edith's text brings out many background details of the rich story she has left us.
**Chosen "Best Spirituality Book of 1986" by the Catholic Press Association**

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Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

Review:

A splendid translation, filled with a deep understanding of Edith Stein. --Cistercian Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: ICS Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0935216049
• ISBN 13: 9780935216042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548