This initial volume of Collected Works offers, for the first time in English, Edith Stein's unabridged autobiography depicting herself as a child and young adult. Her text breaks abruptly because the Gestapo arrested her, then deported her to Auschwitz in 1942.

  Edith Stein is one of the most significant German women of our century. At the age of twenty five she became the first assistant to the founder of Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl. She was much in demand as a writter-lecturer after her conversation from atheism to Catholicism. Later, as a Carmelite nun, she maintained her intellectual pursuits until she died, along with so many other Jewish people, in the Holocaust.

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The Collecteted Works of Edith Stein, in 7 volumes.