Edith Stein and Regina Jonas - Religious Visionaries in the Time of the Death Camps

List of contents

Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether Part I: Desire 1 Why Edith Stein? Why Regina Jonas? 2 Stein’s and Jonas’s views of women: the philosophy student and the rabbinical student Part II: Vision 3 St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross reveals the whole megillah as Edith Stein 4 Regina Jonas: from candidate to rabbinerin Part III: God 5 Stein suffering on the cross: the call of Abram Lech Lecha 6 Rabbinerin Regina Jonas: seeing the face of the Shekhinah 7 A theology of resistance as liberation in the death camps

About the author

Emily Leah Silverman is a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA

Summary

First published 2013. This ground-breaking book examines the lives of two extraordinary, religious women who pursued their spiritual paths to serve their communities during the Holocaust.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Leah Silverman, Silverman Emily Leah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2019
• EAN: 9780367321468
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32146-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; History, Europe, RELIGION / General, Second World War, Humanities, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater