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Maria Adele Herrmann
DIE SPEYERER JAHRE VON EDITH STEIN: Aufzeichnungen zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag ("EDITH STEIN'S EIGHT YEARS IN SPEYER") Speyer, Germany. Pilger-Verlag. 1990. 212 pages. Hardcover. ISBN-10: 3876370426 reviewed by Patrick Killough (1) lunch.com 12/05/2011 name of review: A Future Saint's Eight Years As A Catholic Laywoman in Speyer : 1923 - 1931 rating: * * * * review: If ever a fine book needed to be translated straightway into English, it is the biographical study in German of Saint Edith Stein by German Dominican nun Sister Maria Adele Herrmann, OP, of the city of Speyer. EDITH STEIN'S YEARS IN SPEYER is a fair English translation of the biography's German title: DIE SPEYERER JAHRE VON EDITH STEIN, published in 1990 by Pilger-Verlag in Speyer, 212 pp. Suppose that you do not know a word of German but are fascinated by Edith Stein (1891 - 1942). She was born into a devout Jewish family in Prussian Breslau (now Polish Wroclaw), became an atheist without fanfare in 1906, a baptized Catholic in 1922, a cloistered Carmelite nun in 1933 and, with her older sister Rosa, was gassed to death in Auschwitz in 1942. In between she had been, along with Martin Heidegger and others, a highly original favorite student and personal assistant of Professor Edmund Husserl, the creator of philosophical phenomenology. Stein's 1916 doctoral dissertation on "Empathy" is still studied. Hers were towering gifts for languages and for exact, precise hard thinking. In 1987, as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Edith Stein became the first person born Jewish ever to be beatified by the Catholic Church. In 1998 she was declared a canonized saint and one of the patron saints of Europe. Someday her religious, mystical and philosophical works may even earn her that rare title, like her model, Saint Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Universal Church. So, if you are curious to learn anything more about an astonishing woman, but know no German, then at least pick up and study the externals of DIE SPEYERER JAHRE VON EDITH STEIN. What do you notice? --Notably thick pages of high quality
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--Perhaps a dozen black and white or sepia-tinted photos of Edith Stein from ages four to 48. --Photos of priests, nuns, schoolgirls with their teacher Edith Stein, --views of the city of Speyer, churches, a school, modest interior rooms. That is as far as you can go if you know no German. Hence, the urgent need that this book be translated into English. Because its contents are of enormous raw material value for a rounded biography of one of 20th Century Europe's most fascinating women intellectuals. Someone needs to translate this book into English! Perhaps you? *********** On January 1, 1922, a few weeks after her 30th birthday, Doctor Edith Stein was baptized a Roman Catholic. Thus by the time she was executed in August 1942, Stein had been a Christian for barely 20 years. Of those 20 years the first 12 were spent as a Catholic laywoman and she even considered marriage with two different fellow phenomenologists. Stein's final eight years on this earth were those of a cloistered Carmelite nun, vowed to poverty, celibacy and obedience to religious authorities. And as a nun she composed religious and spiritual master works. The German book, EDITH STEIN'S YEARS IN SPEYER, details Edith Stein's eight years as a Catholic lay woman teaching teen-age girls in a Dominican boarding school in Speyer, Germany, on the Rhine river, not far from the French border. During those eight years Stein was a citizen of the Weimar Republic, constituted from the ruins of the German Empire. She experienced hyper-inflation and efforts of the French to carve away from Germany the Rhine's left bank lands closest to France. She also experienced the rise of Hitler's Nazis and the likelihood of anti-Jewish atrocities if they ever achieved power, as they did in January 1933. Strangely neglected, these eight years -- 1923 - 1931, represent 40% of the future saint's barely 20 years as a Christian. In Speyer Edith Stein interacted on a daily basis with a total over the years of several hundred students, parents and dozens of Dominican nuns, many of whom have left written impressions of the diminutive intellectual dynamo. She also resumed publishing of articles on academic philosophy. She wrote and lectured in several countries on theories and practice of Catholic education. Stein translated Anglican letters of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the de Veritate of Saint Thomas Aquinas and daringly compared Thomist and phenomenological philosophizing. During her twelve years as an ardent Christian lay person, Edith Stein grew into a German Catholic laywoman and professional of increasing renown and respect. During the last months of the dying Weimar Republic, Edith Stein left Speyer for Muenster where she briefly taught in the Catholic Institute for Scientific Pedagogy. In October 1933, ten months after Hitler came to power, Edith Stein entered a Carmelite convent in Cologne. Eight years later she died both a Jewish and a Christian martyr at Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland. In clear, straightforward, non-Ciceronian German, Speyer Dominican author Maria Adele Herrmann concentrates on Stein's life between her conversion experience in the summer of 1921, her Catholic baptism and confirmation in 1922 and her eight ensuing years teaching girls in a Dominican school in Speyer. In EDITH STEIN'S YEARS IN SPEYER we learn the history of ancient Speyer and the 700-year years work by Dominican nuns educating Catholic girls. We see incredibly brilliant, passionate new-Christian Edith Stein handed over by one learned but out of his depth spiritual advisor in Bad Bergzabern (where Edith was baptized) to an even more learned friend in Speyer to do justice to the depths of Jesus Christ's newest convert. We learn all about Bavaria and its control of the Palatinate where Speyer lies. We study in detail a hundred years of educational reform in Bavarian schools. We read Edith Stein's notes for her classes in history and German and for her lectures to 19-year old future teachers on religion, Judaism and philosophy. Nor must we think of Edith Stein's eight years in Speyer as given over entirely to teaching teen age girls. On the advice of male spiritual advisors, Stein resumed plumbing the life of the mind that she had abandoned for some months after her conversion. She translated John Henry Newman and Thomas Aquinas. She created virtual dialogs between Aquinas and contemporary phenomenologists. She became known as a first-class thinker, writer and lecturer about Christian education, first in the Palatinate, then in all of Germany. Her students happily took Edith's photos. Much later they wrote their memories of Fraeulein Doktor Stein, tiny, always primly dressed, rarely smiling but always keen to take the girls on hikes and picnics and to the theater. No student of Edith Stein, the lay Christian, dare avoid the book, EDITH STEIN'S YEARS IN SPEYER. Stein did great religious work during those eight years in Speyer -- and strictly as a lay person. Similarly, the great Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, had 400 years earlier created and refined his SPIRITUAL EXERCISES while still a barely educated Basque nobleman and Catholic layman. Edith Stein and her world, her culture and even her religion are German to the core. Her passionate patriotism in World War I drove Stein to break off her doctoral studies and serve as a nurse in a field hospital just behind the Russian front. How Germany and the world might have been better served if Hitler and the Nazis had not choked off a budding revival of free Christianity in the Weimar Republic! -OOO- http://community.cafelibri.com/reviews/d/UserReview-Maria_Adele_Herrmann _OP_DIE_SPEYERER_JAHRE_VON_EDITH_STEIN-74-1785673-216072- A_Future_Saint_s_Eight_Years_As_A_Catholic.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= (2) OPEN LIBRARY 12/06/2011 How would you describe this book? A literal English translation of the German title is "Edith Stein's Years in Speyer." Fleshing that title out, the author notes that the future martyr and saint spent 1923 - 1931, eight of her 12 years as a Roman Catholic laywoman, in the small but ancient city of Speyer on the Rhine river in the German (Bavarian-ruled) Palatinate. The book briefly reviews Edith Stein's life: her first 16 years as a member of a large, devout Jewish family in Prussian Breslau (today's Polish Wroclaw), the next 14 as a non-passionate atheist or agnostic, and her final 20 years as a baptized, ardent Christian convert. In 1916 she took a doctoral degree under Phenomenology's founder Edmund Husserl, following a pioneering dissertation on Empathy. Blocked from an academic career in Germany by the double glass ceiling of being a woman and a Jew, Edith Stein came to Christianity after reading the autobiography of 16th-Century Spanish Carmelite nun, Saint Teresa of Avila. As early as her January 1, 1922 baptism, Edith Stein wanted to become a Carmelite nun. But male spiritual advisors found this aspiration premature and potentially crushing for Auguste Stein, her pious Jewish mother, and one, Father Joseph Schwind, helped her find a teaching job for a large 700- year old Dominican nuns' convent in Speyer. There she lived in very close contact with and shared the daily prayer and worship life of the sisters, while, down the years, teaching hundreds of Catholic girls. Despite her heavy teaching load, Edith Stein also found time to resume a serious intellectual life. She translated into German early letters of the English cardinal John Henry Newman. She translated and commented Saint Thomas Aquinas's de Veritate ("On Truth"). She compared Thomistic and Husserlian approaches to philosophizing. She also made a national and European name for herself as a theoretician of and speaker on Christ-centered education. The book briefly touches upon the rest of Edith Stein's life after she resigned as a teacher of girls in Speyer for a higher position in Catholic education in Muenster. Also briefly mentioned are final attested encounters with Edith Stein at the train station of Schifferstadt, six miles from Speyer, in August 1942 when Stein and her sister Rosa, and scores of Jewish Catholics arrested in the Netherlands were being transported to Auschwitz, Poland, for extermination. DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN is clearly written, in simple, non-academic German. Stein has been taken to heart by the Carmelite Order in which she was professed and died. Her Order is publishing Stein's own works in English translations and sponsoring a considerable volume of secondary, especially biographic writing. But the Dominican sisters of Speyer took the occasion of her 100th birthday to remind the world that the Saint's first immersion and growth in Christianity was among Dominican teaching nuns in Speyer. The book deserves translation into English. And the Dominicans of Speyer are open to offers from anyone qualified to do the translating. -OOO- Black Mountain, NC, USA December 06, 2011 TPK Some tags
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Church history, Bavarian educational system, phenomenology, German anti-semitism, Thomistic philosophy, Weimar Republic, Nazism. A person? Or, people? Edith Stein Saint (1891-1942), Saint Thomas Aquinas, Edmund Husserl, Roman Ingarden, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Auguste Stein, Joseph Schwind. Adolf Hitler. Eugenio Pacelli. Note any places mentioned? Speyer (Germany), Bad Bergzabern, Breslau, Bavaria, Palatinate, Schifferstadt, Auschwitz, Tuebingen, Hamburg When is it set or about? 1923 - 1931 Please, leave a short note about what you changed: I fleshed out an almost empty framework. 12/06/2011 TPK http://openlibrary.org/works/OL12746517W/Die_Speyerer_Jahre_von_Edith_Stein ==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= (3) amazon.com 12/07/2011 title of review: A Jewish-Catholic Laywoman's Eight Years (1923-31) of Teaching Under the Weimar Republic rating: * * * * review: Saint Edith Stein (1891 - 1942) lived for 50 years until exterminated by German Nazis in Auschwitz in August 1942. From the point of view of organized religion, those fifty years were divided: -- 1891 - 1907: raised a pious Jew in
Prussian Breslau
-- 1907 - 1921 (August): convinced but non-enthusiastic or noisy atheist/agnostic -- 1922 (January First) - 1933 (October 15): Roman Catholic convert and laywoman -- 1933 - 1942 - Catholic nun, member of the secluded Order of Discalced Carmelites. Dr Edith Stein was beatified as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1987) and canonized (1998) by Pope John-Paul II and is now one of several Catholic patron saints of Europe. To celebrate Edith Stein's 100th birthday, a Dominican nun of Speyer in the German Palatinate, Sister Maria Adele Herrmann, composed DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN (1990) ("Edith Stein's Eight Years in Speyer"). This well documented and illustrated biographic snippet focuses on the future saint's 12 years as a Catholic laywoman, from her baptism at Bad Bergzabern in 1922 till her entry into the Cologne Carmel convent in late 1933. More particularly, Herrmann focuses on laywoman Stein's eight years in Speyer teaching in two Dominican schools for girls, lecturing to novice Dominican nuns, resuming publication of academic-quality literary work and making a European name for herself as a German theoretician of Christ-centered, Catholic education. Many readers will take up this book simply for its fascinating details of eight years of Edith Stein's interacting with Dominican nuns, hundreds of teenage Catholic girls and such work as translations with commentary into German of the Anglican letters of Cardinal John Henry Newman and the de Veritate ("On Truth") of Saint Thomas Aquinas. We read Edith Stein's notes for her classes, see the photos that her teen-age girl students took of her and watch her quietly at work washing dishes as the nuns served free food to thousands of needy people in Speyer. But there are also other fruits to be plucked from DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN, including the one that I flag for you now: general German and specifically Catholic life during post-World War I Germany's Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933). Author Maria Adele Herrmann touches upon the following: -- Hyperinflation: On October the
Dominican teacher's institute, where Edith Stein taught in addition to
the girls' high school, acknowledged receipt of 730 million Marks. On
that day the price of five Koh-I-Noor brand pencils was aslo recorded
as 750 million Marks (Ch. 6, p. 70). In early September, before
October's hourly price rises, one American dollar would buy ten million
German Marks.
-- Edith Stein foresaw a persecution first of Jews and later of Christians if Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ever came to power, as they did in January 1933. -- Catholic activism in education and social welfare flourished in the Weimar Republic. Within the traditional high standards of German education, Catholic activists such as Edith Stein strongly underlined that the purpose of Catholic education was to produce Christ-like Christians, strong in prayer and morals. At the same time, unabashedly feminist Stein argued that no profession should be closed to women who were qualified. -- Having survived Chancellor Bismarck's anti-Catholic Kulturkampf, Weimar Republic Catholics experienced a powerful sense of being able for the first time freely to live and evolve their religious culture as they saw fit. Thus Edith Stein was strongly taken by the heroic life of lay Catholic mystic and stigmatist Barbara Pfister (1867 - 1909). Accompanied by a student, Stein visited Pfister's grave on many a Sunday afternoon in Speyer. In her final years as a Carmelite nun, Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, published masterpieces of Christian prayer and mystical devotion. --Of more than 23,000 residents in 1923, the city of Speyer had nearly 4,600 unemployed. The city hosted few industries. It was impoverished. In addition, the Palatinate was occupied by French troops and controlled by French police until July 1, 1930. The years 1923 and 1924 saw serious agitation in Speyer and elsewhere to detach not just that city but the left bank of the Rhine from Germany and annex it to France (Ch. 4, pp. 34f). Saint Edith Stein was a German of the Germans, grateful in her youth to the government of Prussia for assuring her and other Jewish girls a first-class education. In the first World War, Stein volunteered as a nurse in a German Red Cross hospital on the Austrian-Russian front. She rarely traveled outside Germany and Austria, although a quick learner of a dozen or so languages She taught both history and German language and literature for eight years in Speyer in the Dominican boarding/day school. Despite enormous demands on her time as a teacher, she made time for prodigious writing and research 1923 -1931 -- all in German. Even her religion seems profoundly German: serious, systematic, disciplined, culture-bound. And yet she was also profoundly Jewish. Edith Stein rejoiced every day while praying in the Dominican chapel that Mary, Jesus and the apostles were of the same race as she. She begged in vain that Pope Pius XI intervene with Hitler against mistreatment of German Jews. She was a woman of all ages, but always profoundly German first, European second. The literature in English by or about Edith Stein is enormous and rapidly growing. It is a shame that the handsome, informative DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN has not yet been translated into English. It is used constantly by scholars. Its German is simple, straight-forward. Would you care to translate this book? The Dominican nuns of Speye, with whom I am in contact, would welcome a qualified translator. -OOO- http://www.amazon.com/Speyerer-Jahre-Edith-Stein-Aufzeichnungen/ dp/3876370426/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313528315&sr=1-1 =-==-=-= (4) epinions.com 12/08/2011 Review Title: A German Feminist's Eight Years in the City of Speyer (1923 - 1931) Product Rating: * * * * Pros: Executed at 50, Edith Stein was a Christian for 20 years, 12 as a laywoman. CONS: Cons: No Index. Focus on 1923-31 downplays seminal rebellious elements of Edith Stein's youth. BOTTOM LINE: Edith Stein was raised Jewish for 16 years. Next: 14 years atheist, her final 20 Christian. Book is about her eight years teaching and writing in Speyer, Germany. Review by
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Let me begin with a few words about German nun Adele Herrmann of the Order of Preachers (OP) (aka Dominicans -- after the order's Spanish founder, Saint Dominic de Guzman, 1170-1221). Sister Herrmann published in 1990 DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN ("Edith Stein's Years in the City of Speyer") to honor the canonized Carmelite nun Dr Edith Stein aka Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891 - 1942) and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stein's birth. Sister Herrmann did not personally know Edith Stein. But before becoming a nun herself, she had studied in the same Dominican girls school in Speyer where Stein taught for eight years and has since lived with nuns and former students who did know the future Saint. If you are familiar with the German craft of bookmaking at its best, you will be pleased with the external features of DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN. The dustjacket's front reproduces the illustrated hard cover: candlestick and candle on a desk, an open book before a window giving upon the cathedral of Speyer, today a city of 50,000 situated on the Rhine river. The back cover shows the central courtyard of the Dominican convent and schools where Edith Stein sat for years under the therein illustrated tree and translated from English and Latin. Hers were the first translations into German of the early works of English Cardinal John Henry Newman and of Saint Thomas Aquinas's de Veritate ("on Truth"). There and in her small room lodged just outside where the nuns lived, Edith Stein penned translations, lectures and seminar papers that would make her an authority in Europe on women, educational ideals and the philosophical school of phenomenology of which Stein was an early standout practitioner. Open the book and notice the high-quality, thick paper on which each page is printed. See the dozen or so photos of Edith Stein from the age of 4 till about 48. Some of the photos were taken by her students. The book also contains a useful timetable of Edith Stein's life as well as photographs of Speyer, the nearby train station at Schifferstadt where witnesses saw Stein August 7, 1942 en route to Auschwitz for execution and likenesses of other places and Speyer people important to Edith Stein What this book does better than any other is to focus broadly on Edith Stein's 20 years as a Christian, following her conversion from atheism in August 1921 and baptism in January 1922. More narrowly, author Herrmann details Stein's 12 years as a Catholic laywoman of which eight were spent teaching German and History in a Dominican boarding/day school for teenage girls and simultaneously, on the same 700-year old convent grounds, instructing 19 year old girls preparing to become teachers. Leaving Speyer in 1932 Edith Stein taught in Muenster for its pioneering, high-level Catholic Institute for Pedagogy. This ended a year later when Hitler took power and at once began to exclude Jews from public life. Adele Herrmann's book begins with the dramatic events of August 1921 which led Jewish-born Edith Stein to abandon 14 years of atheism for Roman Catholic Christianity. The author also sketches the small (23,000 residents in 1923) French-occupied Weimar Republic city of Speyer as it was during the eight years when Stein lived and worked there. Hyperinflation lasted for several years; once her teacher trainng school paid 750 million Marks for five pencils. Post-war France promoted a failed movement to separate the left bank of the Rhine from Germany. And the Nazis began a steady rise in German politics, already preaching "Your child belongs to the Fuehrer." We learn from Sister Adele Herrmann many details of Edith Stein's daily life lodged in a small room provided her on convent property. We learn of her time-consuming work teaching German and History. We review in detail her course syllabi. We watch Edith Stein preparing novice Dominican nuns for their high school diplomas and advising young nuns working for university degrees. Stein was also active in a separate Dominican teacher training facility. We are given an explanation how great a leap of faith it was for both nuns and parents to entrust their students and daughters to a diminutive Jewish Christian who 18 months earlier had been an atheist or agnostic in religion. At the same time we see the frustrated academician and neo-Christian coming slowly to realistic terms with her new faith. Initially, she wanted to do nothing but pray and meditate. But she was living in her mother's house in Breslau, wholly dependent on her for necessities and needed a job when a discerning male spiritual advisor in Speyer persuaded the Dominican prioress to give Stein a chance. Previously, despite a summa cum laude PhD degree in philosophy from Freiburg University under Professor Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology, Edith could not land a university teaching berth. For she bumped up against two academic glass ceilings of Imperial Germany: she was a woman, she was Jewish. In dialog with the helpful nuns of Saint Magdalene Convent in Speyer, Edith Stein worked for years on her two-volume translation and scholarly edition of Aquinas's de Veritate. A helpful nun typed the 2,400 pages of Stein's manuscript. Chapter VII is entitled "Wissenschaft als Gottesdienst" (Knowledge as Service to God). A considerable portion of it (pp. 114-130) goes in detail into the ideas about educating girls that Edith Stein developed during her eight years teaching in Speyer. Speyer also witnessed in Edith Stein a resurgence of dedication to feminism. Stein had grown up up in Breslau, the favorite youngest child of rising widowed businesswoman (in the lumber trade) Auguste Stein. Edith's next older sister became a medical doctor. During her first years in University in Breslau, Edith was active in political and women's groups -- especially for the right of women in Germany to vote. She later told a nun in Speyer that she had once been a "radikale Frauenrechtlerin" (radical champion of women's rights.) Then for a time she lost interest in that theme. She worked with distinction for several months in World War I as a practical nurse in an Austrian military hospital for patients with infectious diseases. In Speyer Dr Edith Stein, formerly known as a rising phenomenologist and philosopher, began to build a Europe-wide reputation as a theoretician of Christian education -- with emphasis on Christ-centeredness. At the same time her reading, lectures and seminars gravitated toward the education of girls and women, the role of women in society and the professions. The 1919 Weimar Constitution of Germany for the first time opened many doors and professions to German women as matters of right. The first lengthy lecture (116 pages) on women that made her fame was delivered in nearby Ludwigshafen. What did God intend by differentiating the two human sexes? What can we learn about women from Scripture? Is being a woman mainly a matter of biology? Of psychology? What does philosophy say about the essence of woman? Women are more open than men to the wide world and to mankind. Philosopher Edith Stein found in women, in addition, a personal, unique existential leaning towards God, as source of all values. But many women abuse their gifts by becoming self-centered, superficial and non-objective about reality. Such females can, however, counterbalance those tendencies by drawing on their masculine side, emphasizing clear, hard thinking, respect for the precise nature of things and for the hard work demanded by a profession (e.g. law, medicine, science). Marriage is a partnership of equals. The ideal woman's model is not a thing or an abstract ideal, but a person, Jesus of Nazareth. In the end, what makes females different, for Edith Stein, is "a notable openness to the workings of God in the soul" (Ch. 7, p. 120). Women are uniquely caring, "motherly." And those womanly qualities they must bring with them into their work and into their professions. German society is sick. It will be healed by devout Christian women: daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, aunts, lawyers, theologians, chemists, pharmacists, philosophers, nuns. She expressed these ideas very firmly in a 1930 summer conference in Salzburg, Austria. Women have the right to participate and excel in every established profession. No woman is "merely" a woman. She has her individual skills and needs. She will bring to any profession a strong sense of ethics. In Stein's view life in a religious order is particularly appropriate for women. For women have a strong drive to belong totally to another, to be possessed by and to possess someone else. And among all those "others" God alone can fully satisfy any woman's needs. It is necessary for happiness that every woman whether nun, wife or unmarried professional, find a good way to give herself totally to God. Edith Stein was not a friend of coeducation before university years. Schools for young girls and teens should take full account of their female sex, strengths, blind sides and temptations in order to prepare girls to deal intelligently, prudently and justly with the real world confronting them. For both boys and girls the best education is one that gives them ways to look for and find God. **********
We sometimes forget that priests, bishops, nuns and founders of religious orders were lay people before they were parts of a priestly or religious in-gathering. Many did great deeds as laymen. Think of Jesuit founder Saint Ignatius of Loyola. His masterwork THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES was created and taught long before Ignatius became a clergyman. Not as well as she might does Sister Adele recall the time when a rebellious teenager deliberately dropped out of school in Speyer to "find herself," living for ten months with her 15 years older sister Else and the latter's dermatologist husband Max Gordon in Hamburg. The Gordons, cousins, were both non-practicing Jews. In their non-kosher household 16-year old Edith Stein consciously said her last prayer and quietly broke with her ancestral religion. When she returned invigorated to her final years of secondary schooling in Breslau, Edith seemed to have found herself. From then on pursuit of knowledge and truth became her supreme secular values. NOTE:
Saint Edith Stein's Carmelite Order is pouring time, talent and money into publishing English translations of Stein's works. And Stein biographers and scholars easily find publishers and readers of their writings in English. Mysteriously, however, an important book in German, DIE SPEYERER JAHRE von EDITH STEIN ("Edith Stein's Eight Years in the City of Speyer") has yet to be translated. This is a pity. I am in touch with the Dominican sisters in Speyer and they are eager to find a qualified translator. My wife and I are happy to support their efforts. Dare we hope that some epinionators or other readers of this review younger than us two septuagenarians will step forward to translate? p.s. Thank you, epinions gatekeeper DramaStef, for making this excellent German book reviewable in English. -OOO- Recommended: Yes. http://www.epinions.com/review/Maria_Adele_Herrmann _Die_Speyerer_Jahre_von_Edith_Stein_Edith_Stein_s_ Years_in_Speyer_epi/content_572651507332 =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= Extra
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