More than a popular biography of a Carmelite saint by one of the leading experts on Edith Stein, this volume also shows us the people and places she knew, with

Edith Stein lived an unconventional life. Born into a devout Jewish family, she drifted into atheism in her mid teens, took up the study of philosophy, studied

This is the powerful and moving story of the remarkable Jewish woman who converted to Catholicism, gained fame as a great philosopher in Germany, became a Carme

In the wake of World War I when neither Jews nor women were widely accepted in academia, Edith Stein rose to prominence as a leading intellectual in Germany. Sh

Regarded today as a Catholic martyr, Edith Stein was a convert from Judaism who became a nun, yet was nonetheless deported by the Nazis to her death in Auschwit