Next Week - November 10
November 1st, 2006
Our guests are:
Fritz Stern on FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN
and
Joyce Avrech Berkman on CONTEMPLATING EDITH STEIN
Sixty eight years ago, on the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, terror was unleashed on German Jews by the Nazi regime. Jewish stores and homes were vandalized, synagogues were burned to the ground, and countless men and boys were hauled off to concentration camps. In post-war years, it came to be called Kristallnacht, for the broken glass that littered the streets. Fritz Stern escaped Nazi Germany with his family just five weeks before Kristallnacht. He was twelve years old. His new memoir, FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN, recounts his complex history with the country of his birth and earlier childhood.
Also, University of Massahusetts professor of history, Joyce Avrech Berkman, received accolades last year for editing a volume of essays about Edith Stein, the German Jew, turned Catholic nun who was canonized in 1998. Stein perished in Auschwitz in August, 1942. We talk with Berkman about Stein’s feminism, faith and life.
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