Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916
Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916
A Companion
Joyce Avrech Berkman interprets Edith Stein's autobiography as time and space bound, yet arrestingly transgressive. She probes the origins, nature, and afterlife of Stein's work, which sheds light on Stein's response to Nazi antisemitism and the roots of her key philosophical and spiritual concerns.