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- Title
“ The Destiny of This People Is My Own...”: Edith Stein’s Paradoxical Sainthood.
- Authors
Espín, Oliva M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the significance of the life and sainthood of Edith Stein. Born Jewish in Breslau, she converted to Catholicism at age 30 and joined a convent but never hid her Jewish origins. She was murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She studied philosophy with Edmund Husserl and graduated summa cum laude with a thesis on empathy. Having trouble being hired for university work because of sexism and anti-semitism, she was among many German Jewish academics who converted to Christianity. The question is raised whether Stein would have left Judaism if it had been more seriously welcoming of women. The article notes that Stein saw essential differences between men and women not as a sign of female inferiority but of their unique value.
- Subjects
POLAND; STEIN, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942; CONVERSION to Christianity; AUSCHWITZ concentration camp; HUSSERL, Edmund, 1859-1938; SEXISM in higher education; ANTISEMITISM; JUDAISM &; gender; WOMEN &; religion; HISTORY
- Publication
Cross Currents, 2008, Vol 58, Issue 1, p117
- ISSN
0011-1953
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cro.2008.a782406