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  Encyclopedia: Edith Stein
Edith and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they died in the gas chambers on August 9, 1942.
Edith Stein's excitement at her discovery of phenomenology was crucial to her decision to move to the University of Gottingen (located in the Kingdom of Hanover) and to study under Husserl.
Edith Stein was subsequently baptized as a Roman Catholic at Bergzabern on 1 January 1922.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edith-Stein   (2151 words)

  
 Edith Stein, Racism and the Church.
Edith Stein was a Roman Catholic convert from a Jewish background.
Edith Stein renounced Judaism and became an atheist in 1904.
When she was forced to resign her post in 1933, Edith Stein was not a member of the Jewish religious community.
www.anti-racism.supanet.com /rac/stein.htm   (816 words)

  
 John Sullivan: Edith Stein's Humor and Compassion
MOST experts on Edith Stein would agree that all her professional activities, philosophizing and religious questing had a deeper understanding of the human spirit as their preeminent goal.
If we keep in mind that Edith is writing this scene nineteen years after the fact, we can appreciate how the seemingly sharp edge to the struggle of wills between mother and daughter would have already disappeared, nor was she trying to emphasize it.
Stein wrote this letter in what we call "the Year of Our Lord 1932," but for the young German women of whom she speaks it was one of those years "between-the-wars," when Germany lurched back and forth under the burden of the social and political upheaval that eventually brought the Nazis to power.
www.spiritualitytoday.org /spir2day/91432sullivan.html   (5871 words)

  
 The Life and Texts of Edith Stein
Sarah Borden's Bibliography of Secondary Souces on Edith Stein.
The Pre-Baptismal Philosophy of Edith Stein by Marianne Sawicki, PhD.
Since the Austin Secular Carmelite community took Edith Stein as their patron, Emmaus makes an even greater effort to have things on her and even recently had a medal created to honor her.
geocities.com /baltimorecarmel/stein/index.html   (293 words)

  
 Edith Stein: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Today, there is a school to tribute Edith Stein in Darmstadt (additional info and facts about Darmstadt), Germany.
Some historians have challenged the Catholic Church's handling of Stein's death.
Detractors go on to suggest that Stein's memory is being used in a ploy to draw attention away from the Church's indifference to the Holocaust by subtly suggesting that Catholics suffered as harshly as the Jews did under the the reign of the Nazis.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edith_stein.htm   (593 words)

  
 Husserl Page
On May 1, 1987 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II.
» Papal comments regarding the life of Edith Stein
Located in Speyer, the Society seeks to highlight the life and philosophical thinking of Edith Stein.
www.husserlpage.com   (3285 words)

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