Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
13,1 (2000) 45-58
Keywords:
Stein, Edith,
;
Christian converts from Judaism
;
Church history 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
An address delivered in Göttingen, October 1999. Notes that although in proclaiming Edith Stein a saint the Church intended to express its opposition to antisemitism and to build a bridge between Christianity and Judaism, the act was perceived quite differently not only by Jews but also by many Catholics. They wondered whether the Church was not trying to whitewash its failure to intervene for Jews, even Catholics of Jewish origin, in the Holocaust, and whether its tribute to a convert was not tainted by missionary intentions. Contends that the Church must review critically its behavior toward Stein (and other Jews) during the Nazi period: Stein's dismissal from her teaching position in a Church institution; the lack of response to her letter to the Pope asking him to publish a condemnation of the racist core of Nazism; the betrayal of her Jewish origin to the authorities; the failure to secure asylum for her and her sister. Stein herself, while assimilating elements of Catholic anti-Jewish theology, defended the Jews and emphasized the Jewish roots of Christianity.
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