Hélène Iswolsky (1896–1975)
Autore di Christ in Russia; the history, tradition, and life of the Russian Church
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Iswolsky, Hélène
- Nome legale
- Извольская, Елена Александровна
- Altri nomi
- Iswolsky, Helen
Izvolʹskaia, Elena - Data di nascita
- 1896-07-24
- Data di morte
- 1975-12-24
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Sylvia's Cemetery; Tivoli, New York, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Russia
- Luogo di nascita
- Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany
- Luogo di morte
- Beacon, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Tivoli, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA - Attività lavorative
- language teacher
translator
writer - Relazioni
- Day, Dorothy (friend)
Kerensky, Alexander (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Fordham University
The Third Hour - Breve biografia
- Hélène Iswolsky (1896-1975) was known as one of the leading intellectual lay persons among the Russian emigre communities in the West. She was the daughter of Alexander Izvolsky, a Russian diplomat who was the last Tsarist Ambassador to France. Iswolsky grew up in Japan, Denmark, Russia, and France. After her conversion to the Catholic faith she became an ecumenist, dedicated to healing the rift between the Eastern and Western churches. Iswolsky founded "The Third Hour," an ecumenical movement in the United States. While living in France she worked for Emmanuel Mounier's journal Esprit and attended the gatherings of Jacques Maritain and Nicholas Berdiaev. Exiled Russian president Alexander Kerensky helped her and her mother escape to America during the Nazi occupation of France. She was a close friend of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement.
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Communism and Nazism were threatening France. The title of this book refers to the approaching “dusk of civilization” represented by those totalitarian forces. She condemns them both as materialistic and inimical to human freedom. Christians must be independent, not forced to choose between what Maritain called “the right complex” and “the left complex.” “France could be saved only by a complete renovation, not only economic, but moral and spiritual.” She calls for “a spiritual wall against totalitarian influences,” a genuine spiritual revolution. Three chapters describe the difficulties of living in France under German control, even in the so-called free zone. She fled to America in 1941 because she could not do her work under Nazi domination.
The author assumes that the reader knows something about events in France in those days, but she was a gifted writer and this is an easy read for anyone at all familiar with the subject matter. Recommended to readers interested in religion and spirituality, ecumenism, Christian humanism, and French history and philosophy during the 1930s.… (altro)