Edith Stein: Life in a Jewish Family

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An autobiography, Volume I

Translation by Josephine Koeppel, O.C.D.

This initial volume of the Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.

Edith Stein is one of the most significant German women of our century. At the age of twenty-five she became the first assistant to the founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. She was much in demand as a writer-lecturer after her conversion from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits until she died, along with so many other Jewish people, in the Holocaust.

By making this story available in English, the Institute of Carmelite Studies provides an eyewitness account of persons and activities on the scene at the time when psychology and philosophy became separate disciplines.

A Preface, the Foreword and Afterword to Edith's text bring out many background dtails of the rich story she has left us.

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