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Kanoninen nimi
Iswolsky, Hélène
Virallinen nimi
Извольская, Елена Александровна
Muut nimet
Iswolsky, Helen
Izvolʹskaia, Elena
Syntymäaika
1896-07-24
Kuolinaika
1975-12-24
Hautapaikka
St. Sylvia's Cemetery; Tivoli, New York, USA
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Russia
Syntymäpaikka
Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany
Kuolinpaikka
Beacon, New York, USA
Asuinpaikat
New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Tivoli, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Ammatit
language teacher
translator
writer
Suhteet
Day, Dorothy (friend)
Kerensky, Alexander (friend)
Organisaatiot
Fordham University
The Third Hour
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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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These are the recollections of a Russian emigre in France, on a mission to heal the rift between the Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches. A convert to the Catholic faith, she tries to reconcile her Orthodox friends by emphasizing their common roots and beliefs. She draws on the teachings of her philosopher friends Jacques Maritain, a Catholic, and Nicholas Berdiaeff, an Orthodox, both of whom had abandoned materialism and socialism in favor of spiritual values and Christian humanism. They all believed in personalism, the primacy of the person over the state. She calls for Christian humanism, citing the papal encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. She describes in detail the French spiritual and social movements in which she was involved, including youth groups such as Emmanuel Mounier’s “Esprit.”

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.
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pjsullivan | Dec 22, 2013 |
Helene Iswolsky was concerned about the survival of the Russian church in Stalinist Russia. After decades of religious persecution, she reports, "the walls of the Russian church have not crumbled." When in 1937 Stalinists admitted the failure of their brutal tactics and resorted instead to "godless propaganda," the Russian church was still very much alive. She discusses the history of the church and its central role in the lives and traditions of the Russian people. She became a personal friend of Alexander Kerensky, whose democratic provisional government in 1917 guaranteed full religious freedom for all faiths, until it was overthrown by Lenin's Bolsheviks.

After her conversion to Roman Catholicism, the author became especially concerned about Christian disunity, "the great quarrel between East and West." A follower of ecumenist Vladimir Solovyev, she worked for many years to heal the rift in favor of universal "oneness in Christ."
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pjsullivan | Jun 27, 2012 |
Action-packed account of a Russian emigre in France who escaped to America during the Nazi occupation. A Catholic convert, she worked for ecumenism, the reconciliation of Eastern and Western Christian churches. Nonfiction.
 
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pjsullivan | Aug 9, 2011 |

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