@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1999.3.003.POOR, author = "Poorthuis, M.J.H.M. and Salemink, T.A.M.", title = "Kroniek van een vriendschap Francisca van Leer en Jacob Soetendorp", journal= "NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion", year = "1999", volume = "53", number = "3", pages = "208-225", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1999.3.003.POOR", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1999.3.003.POOR", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2590-3268", type = "Journal Article", 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 Israƫl (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.", }