In the period between her conversion and entering Cologne Carmel, Edith Stein was a sought-after speaker at women's conferences. To call her a feminist would be a misuse of the term, but her addresses to women sound remarkably fresh today, as she encourages them to realise the power that they already have and to use it. /// From Cologne …
In the period between her conversion and entering Cologne Carmel, Edith Stein was a sought-after speaker at women's conferences. To call her a feminist would be a misuse of the term, but her addresses to women sound remarkably fresh today, as she encourages them to realise the power that they already have and to use it. /// From Cologne she was sent to a Carmel in the Netherlands the sisters thinking it would be a safe haven. As she was taken from there to Westerbork, the pre-Auschwitz Dutch assembly point, she said to her sister Rosa (who had also become a Catholic), 'Come, let us go for our people.' Mysterious and challenging words, placing themselves in solidarity with their fellow Jews in their suffering, but still the full meaning of those words eludes us.
In the period between her conversion and entering Cologne Carmel, Edith Stein was a sought-after speaker at women's conferences. To call her a feminist would be a misuse of the term, but her addresses to women sound remarkably fresh today, as she encourages them to realise the power that they already have and to use it. /// From Cologne she was sent to a Carmel in the Netherlands the sisters thinking it would be a safe haven. As she was taken from there to Westerbork, the pre-Auschwitz Dutch assembly point, she said to her sister Rosa (who had also become a Catholic), 'Come, let us go for our people.' Mysterious and challenging words, placing themselves in solidarity with their fellow Jews in their suffering, but still the full meaning of those words eludes us.