I don't know much about Edith Stein (Theresa Benedicta). I recall reading information online that Jєωιѕн organizations protested when she was canonized because it was difficult to use the excuse of "self-hating Jєω" or implications of mental impairment to describe her conversion based on her writings.
Also, I read an article in Culture Wars from 2007 that referenced her dislike of тαℓмυdic sophistry in one of her books:
In her autobiography, Life in a Jєωιѕн Family, St. Edith Stein, the most renowned Jєωιѕн convert to Catholicism in recent history, relates a story about an observant Orthodox friend. And at the end of it, she makes a quite candid statement of her opinion of the тαℓмυd [Heb., study].
One day, when out walking with him, I had an errand in one of the houses we passed. In the doorway I suddenly handed him my briefcase to hold while I went in. Too late, it occurred to me that it was Saturday and one ought not to carry anything on the Sabbath. I found him dutifully awaiting me at the doorway. I apologized for thoughtlessly causing him to do something forbidden. ‘I haven’t done anything forbidden,’ he replied quietly. ‘Only on the street is one not to carry anything; it is allowed in the house.’ For that reason, he had remained in the entrance-hall, taking care not to put even one foot into the street. This was an example of the тαℓмυdic sophistry which I found so repugnant. But I made no comment.1
Of course, at the time of this event, St. Edith Stein was not judging the тαℓмυd as a Catholic, but merely as a secular Jєω with a decent head on her shoulders (to put it modestly), and uncommonly strong natural virtue.2 Yet, hers strikes me as the only proper Catholic attitude towards this collection of books. For that matter, Catholics have far weightier reasons to find the тαℓмυd repugnant than that it is sophistical, namely because it overturns the Word of God in Sacred Scripture and takes credit for the killing of Christ. To find it repugnant, then, is I think the only possible position a Catholic may take, once he knows everything these books contain. So, it will be my endeavor in this article to simply show people what’s in the тαℓмυd, and hopefully inculcate a proper attitude in Catholic readers, and correct the opposite error. To adapt a phrase from St. John Chrysostom (and yes, I know the original phrase was over the top), some, I know, respect the тαℓмυd and think that its method of biblical exegesis is a venerable one. This is why I hasten to uproot and tear out this deadly opinion.3....
Footnotes:
[1] St. Edith Stein, Life in a Jєωιѕн Family (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1986) pp. 212-213
[2] Jєωιѕн author David Novak writes, “Jєωs have been able to dismiss most modern Jєωιѕн converts to Christianity as people motivated by social or professional ambition, self-hatred, ignorance, or mental imbalance. But anyone who knew Edith Stein or who knows anything about her life would have to admit that none of these categories applies to her. Indeed, Edith Stein comes across as sui generis [i.e. one of a kind]. She might be the most uniquely problematic Jєω for us since Saul of Tarsus” (“Apostate Saint,” First Things 96 (October 1999) p. 15).
[3] Adapted from his first homily against the Judaizers.
The remainder of the article is available here:
http://www.culturewars.com/2007/тαℓмυd.htm
I'm puzzled as to why she continued to go to the ѕуηαgσgυє and why she wasn't rejected by the local Jєωιѕн community.