EDITH STEIN
Self-Portrait In Letters, 1916-1942

     By Edith Stein, translated by Josephine Koeppel, OCD. The majority of her surviving letters, with 4 photos and index of recipients.

ISBN 0-935216-20-0 ICS Code: PL 357 pages, paper, $12.95.

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     Edith Stein comes alive through these warm, totally attentive letters. She joins a deeply sensitive heart with her keen intelligence, revealing herself to be a wise mentor and a caring friend available to anyone who approached her. Here we learn what was truly important to her: the total well-being of those who treasured her letters enough to preserve them even while suffering the havoc of war and oppression. This volume offers the first English translation of the majority of her surviving letters, with 4 photos and an index of recipients.


Reviews

     "Highly readable.… The notes to the letters, which Sister Josephine has frequently supplemented, are absolutely not to be skipped. They are filled with useful information."
- John W. Donohue, America

     "A moving portrait of this holy Carmelite who died in the death camps of Auschwitz."
- Review for Religious