| | 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. |
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