Introductory Bibliography for Edith Stein

Compiled by Marianne Sawicki, Ph.D

 

Life and death of Edith Stein

Herbstrith, Waltraud. Edith Stein: A Biography. Translated by Bernard Bonowitz. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. Second edition, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992.

Stein, Edith. Life in a Jewish Family: Her Unfinished Autobiographical Account. The Collected Works of Edith Stein, volume one. Translated by Josephine Koeppel. Washington: ICS Publications, 1986. (The text is followed by a "Chronology 1916-1943," pages 415-435, a "Translator's Afterword," pages 436-467, extensive notes, and an index.)

Stein, Edith. Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942. The Collected Works of Edith Stein, volume five. Translated by Josephine Koeppel. Washington: ICS Publications, 1993. (The text is supplemented with extensive notes and indexes.)

Michael, Eleanor. "Saints and Nazi skeletons." History Today 48 (October 98) 4-5.

Herbstrith, Waltraud, editor. Never Forget: Christian and Jewish Perspectives on Edith Stein. Translated by Susanne Batzdorff. Washington: ICS Publications, 1998. (On pages 199-278 are the personal reminiscences of a number of people who knew Edith Stein.)

Philosophy of Edith Stein

Baseheart, Mary Catharine. Person in the World: Introduction to the Philosophy of Edith Stein. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.

Baseheart, Mary Catharine, Linda Lopez McAlister, and Waltraut Stein. "Edith Stein (1891-1942)." A History of Women Philosophers 4: 157-187. Edited by Mary Ellen Waithe. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995.

Sawicki, Marianne.

"Personal Connections: The Phenomenology of Edith Stein."

Several scholarly reviews of Edith Stein's major work Endliches und ewiges Sein (Finite and Eternal Being) appeared in English-language journals shortly after its posthumous publication in 1950. See: Rudolf Allers, New Scholasticism 26 (1952) 480-485; James Collins, Modern Schoolman 29 (1952) 139-145;Fritz Kaufmann, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 12 (1952) 572-577.

Women and Education in the Writings of Edith Stein

Baseheart, Mary Catharine. "Edith Stein's Philosophy of Woman and Women's Education." Hypatia 4:1 (1989) 120-131. Reprinted in Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers, 267-279. Edited by Linda López McAlister. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996).

McAlister, Linda López. "Edith Stein: Essential Differences." Philosophy Today 37 (1993) 70-77.

Cross, Nancy M. "A Higher Middle Ground: Blessed Edith Stein's Feminism." Review for Religious 48 (1989) 86-94.

Oben, Freda Mary. "Edith Stein as Educator." Thought 65 (1990) 113-126.

Spirituality and Theology of Edith Stein

Payne, Steven. "Edith Stein: A Fragmented Life." America 179 (October 10, 1998) 11-14.

Koeppel, Josephine. Edith Stein: Philosopher and Mystic. The Way of the Christian Mystics 12. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1990.

Sullivan, John. "Edith Stein's Humor and Compassion." Spirituality Today 43 (1991) 142-160.

Woty»a, Karol (Pope John Paul II). "Homily at the Beatification of Edith Stein (May 1, 1987)." Edith Stein Symposium: Teresian Culture, 295-309. Carmelite Studies 4. Washington: ICS, 1987.

Edith Stein in the Dialogue Between Christians and Jews

Herbstrith, Waltraud, editor. Never Forget: Christian and Jewish Perspectives on Edith Stein. Translated by Susanne Batzdorff. Washington: ICS Publications, 1998.

Batzdorff, Susanne. "A Martyr of Auschwitz." The New York Times Magazine, April 12, 1987, 52-55, 70. Reprinted in Edith Stein: Selected Writings, 103-113. Edited by Susanne M. Batzdorff (Springfield, IL: Templegate Publishers, 1990).

Biberstein, Michael, et al. "Open Letter to John Paul." National Catholic Reporter. October 23, 1998, page 22.

Keeler, Cardinal William. "Advisory on the Implications for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Canonization of Edith Stein."

Foxman, Abraham M, and Leon Klenicki. "Commentary: Whose Saint Is She?" The Jerusalem Post, Oct. 20, 1998. Reprinted in World Press Review 46 (January 1999) 47.

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March 4, 1999.

 

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