Edith Stein and Regina Jonas : religious visionaries in the time of the death camps / Emily Leah Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Emily Leah, author.

Series:

Religion and violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Edith, Saint, 1891-1942.

Stein, Edith.

Jonas, Regina, 1902-1944.

Jonas, Regina.

Carmelite Nuns--Germany--Biography.

Carmelite Nuns.

Women rabbis--Germany--Berlin--Biography.

Women rabbis.

Women internment camp inmates--Biography.

Women internment camp inmates.

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates--Biography.

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates.

Christian converts from Judaism.

Religious life.

Germany--Berlin.

Germany.

Christian converts from Judaism--Religious life.

Jewish women--Religious life.

Jewish women.

Gender identity.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 191 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen Publishing Limited, 2013.

Summary:

This groundbreaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary religious women. Both Edith Stein and Regina Jonas were German Jewish women who demonstrated "deviant" religious desires as they pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust. Both were religious visionaries viewed as iconoclasts in their own times. Stein, the first woman to receive a doctorate in philosophy from Husserl, the founder of phenomenology, claimed her Jewish identity while she was still a cloistered Carmelite nun. Jonas, the first woman rabbi in Jewish history, served as a rabbi in Berlin and Ther-esienstadt concentration camp. A study of a contemplative and a rabbi, the book ranges across many spiritual and theological questions, not least offering a remarkable exploration of the theology of spiritual resistance. For Stein, this meant redemption and the transmutation of suffering on the cross; for Jonas, acts of compassion bring the face of God into our presence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pt. I. Desire

Why Edith Stein? Why Regina Jonas?

Stein's and Jonas's views of women: the philosophy student and the rabbinical student

Pt. II. Vision

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross reveals the whole megillah as Edith Stein

Regina Jonas: from candidate to rabbinerin

Pt. III. God

Stein suffering on the cross: the call of Abram Lech Lecha

Rabbinerine Reginea Jonas: seeing the face of the Shekhinah

A theology of resistance as liberation in the death camps.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1844657191

9781844657186

1844657183

9781844657193

OCLC:

840465330

Publisher Number:

99957677211