The Star of David

This article examines the thought of Mother Maria Skobtsova on the fate of the Jewish people through an analysis of her poem *The Star of David* and her verse play *The Soldiers*, written in 1942 under the Nazi Occupation. The study, which draws on theological meditation and literary analysis, also reconstructs the history of the altered transmission of the poem, several stanzas of which were censored during its first posthumous publication in 1949. The central idea is that Mother Maria interprets antisemitic persecution as an eschatological sign calling both Christians to martyrdom and the Jewish people to recognize the Messiah. The contribution of the article is to show how this Russian Orthodox nun developed, drawing on Romans 11, an original theology of reconciliation between the Church and the Synagogue, anticipating a Jewish-Christian rapprochement grounded in shared suffering.