Eva Fleischner

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Eva Maria Fleischner (born 1925 in Vienna ) is a retired Austro-American religious scholar.

Life

Eva Fleischner's father came from a secularized Viennese Jewish family, her mother was a Catholic, and her father converted when she was eleven years old. She attended the Dominican School in Hietzing . After the annexation of Austria, her parents took her to safety on a Kindertransport to England, where she attended a school run by French nuns. It was not until 1943 that she came into contact with a secular educational institution at a college in Radcliff .

In the late 1960s she studied Christian religious history at Radcliffe College and did research in Paris. In 1972 she received her PhD from Marquette University . In her dissertation, she dealt with the continued mission of the German clergy to the Jews after 1945 . She taught religion and philosophy at Montclair State University from 1972 to 1991 , where she became a full professor. She was visiting professor at Colorado College and the College of St. Benedict . In 1996/97, 1998/99 and 2001 she held the “Marquette University Women's Chair in Humanistic Studies”.

In 1979, Fleischner began exploring the then unexplored area of ​​the rescuers of the Jews and in 1985 went to France for interviews. Fleischner researches and publishes on the Catholic-Jewish dialogue, which was put on a new basis by the Catholics in 1965 with Nostra Aetate . She researches Christian anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. She edited the 27 contributions to the conference published in 1974 by the Episcopal Diocese of New York under the title Auschwitz: beginning of a new era? : Reflections on the holocaust was held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine .

Fleischner is a member of the advisory board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and the advisory board of the "US Catholic Bishop's Office Catholic-Jewish Relations for the US Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs". In 1999 she was among the group formed by three Catholics and three Jews International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission , which the resulting 1963-1981 files Edition et Actes documents du Saint-Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre mondiale the behavior of the Vatican in the era of National Socialism on their Should investigate completeness. Fleischner left the group prematurely. The rest of the group stopped the project without having achieved anything in 2001 because the Vatican authorities did not cooperate to the expected extent and released archives. The Vatican denied this representation.

Fonts

  • A Door that Opened and Never Closed: Teaching the Shoah , in: Carol Rittner, John K. Roth (Eds.): From the unthinkable to the unavoidable: American Christian and Jewish scholars encounter the Holocaust . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 1997, pp. 19-31
  • with Michael Phayer : Cries in the night: women who challenged the Holocaust . Preface Nechama Tec . Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1997
  • with Judith Herscopf Banki: Messianic hope: a Jewish perspective, a Christian perspective . Chicago, Ill .: National Institute for Catholic-Jewish Education, 1984
  • (Ed.): Auschwitz: beginning of a new era? : Reflections on the holocaust. Papers given at the International Symposium on the Holocaust held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, June 3 to 6, 1974 . New York: Ktav Pub. Co., 1977
  • Judaism in German Christian theology since 1945: Christianity and Israel considered in terms of mission . Foreword by Krister Stendahl . Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1975. Ph. D. Marquette University 1972

literature

  • Herbert S. Heavenrich: In search of the sacred: Dr. Eva Fleischner, a pioneer Catholic theologian whose search led her to leadership in the ongoing process of ending Catholic-Christian anti-Judaism . Bloomington: 1st Books Library, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Eva Fleischner: A Door that Opened and Never Closed , 1997
  2. ^ The view of Judaism in German Christian theology since 1945: the relationship of Christianity and Israel considered in terms of mission
  3. ↑ College of St. Benedict see English Wikipedia : College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
  4. ^ Marquette University Women's Chair in Humanistic Studies
  5. ↑ Eva Fleischner , at zoominfo
  6. ↑ One of the participants in the 1974 conference was Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
  7. ↑ Vatican Publishes Response to Judeo-Catholic Panel ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Zenit , August 7, 2001  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.zenit.org
  8. ^ Joint Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission Suspends Work , International Council of Christians and Jews , August 10, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Fleischner, Eva
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fleischner, Eva Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-American religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna