Edith Stein Discovered

A Personal Portrait

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Edith Stein (1891–1942), who was canonized in 1998, was born into a Jewish family in Breslau and died in the Auschwitz gas chambers. This introduction to her life draws on her autobiographical writing and follows her academic and religious journey, from philosophical studies with Husserl, through conversion to Catholicism, to her years as a cloistered Carmelite nun.

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