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oa Kroniek van een vriendschap Francisca van Leer en Jacob Soetendorp
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 3, Jul 1999, p. 208 - 225
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- 01 Jul 1999
Abstract
Abstract
Sophie/Francisca van Leer (1892-1953) was born in a Jewish family but converted at the age of 27 to Catholicism. As a Catholic she promoted understanding of Judaism and in 1948 she started a journal De Stem van Israël (The Voice of Israel). In this first cooperation between Jews and Christians in the Netherlands, Francisca van Leer met Jacob Soetendorp (1914-1976), who worked for a Jewish newspaper and later became a prominent liberal rabbi. This essay discusses an hitherto unknown exchange of letters between them, as a valuable testimony to the very first steps in Jewish-Christian dialogue.
© M.J.H.M. Poorthuis & T.A.M. Salemink