MEET EDITH STEIN
Product Description
FROM CLOISTER TO CONCENTRATION CAMP: A CARMELITE NUN CONFRONTS THE NAZIS
Author: Cynthia Cavnar; 159p, SB.
This brief biography of Edith Stein introduces readers to one of the most brilliant and controversial saints of the twentieth century. Born a German Jew, Stein converted to the Catholic faith as a young woman. Having earned a doctorate summa cum laude, she became a respected philosopher, scholar, and university lecturer--at a time when women were rarely allowed to fill those rules, and it was dangerous for a public figure to have Jewish parentage. After Stein entered the Carmelite order, she continued to write, but her life was cut short by the Nazis, who showed a special hatred for Catholic converts from Judaism. She died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz--and earned there a place among the heroic martyrs of our time.
Author: Cynthia Cavnar; 159p, SB.
This brief biography of Edith Stein introduces readers to one of the most brilliant and controversial saints of the twentieth century. Born a German Jew, Stein converted to the Catholic faith as a young woman. Having earned a doctorate summa cum laude, she became a respected philosopher, scholar, and university lecturer--at a time when women were rarely allowed to fill those rules, and it was dangerous for a public figure to have Jewish parentage. After Stein entered the Carmelite order, she continued to write, but her life was cut short by the Nazis, who showed a special hatred for Catholic converts from Judaism. She died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz--and earned there a place among the heroic martyrs of our time.
