Joseph Palmisano explores the interreligious significance of empathy for Jewish-Christian understanding. Drawing on the writings of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) and Edith Stein (1891-1942), he develops a phenomenological category of empathy defined as a way of ''re-membering'' oneself with the religious other. Palmisano follows Heschel's and Stein's personal and spiritual journeys through the darkest years of Nazi Germany. He shows that Heschel's call to Christian interlocutors for a return to God is an ecumenical call to humanity to embrace perceived others: a call to live life as a response to God's pathos. This call finds a prophetic answer in Edith Stein's witness of empathy with regard to the Holocaust. Stein, a Catholic, creates a dialectical bridge with the Jewish 'other,' neither distancing herself nor denying her Jewish roots. Stein's simultaneously Jewish and Christian fidelity is a model for interreligious relations. It is also a challenge to Catholics to remember their religion's Jewish heritage through new categories of witnessing and belonging with others. Beyond the Walls is a critical contribution to the fostering of interreligious understanding, offering both a model of the ideal Jewish-Christian relationship in Heschel and Stein and criteria with which to evaluate contemporary initiatives and controversies concerning interreligious dialogue.

This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of four to eight short story writers and an historical survey of the critical response to their work. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.

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This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of four to eight short story writers and an historical survey of the critical response to their work. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.

Each volume includes a cumulative author and nationality index as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately.

Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and a historical survey of the critical response to their work. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and a historical survey of the critical response to their work. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately (included in subscription).

This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews of four to eight short story writers and an historical survey of the critical response to their work. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text.

Each volume includes a cumulative author and nationality index as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is available separately.

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