Research Catalog

Title

Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas : the story of the first woman rabbi / Elisa Klapheck ; translated from the German by Toby Axelrod.

Author

Klapheck, Elisa

Publication

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Axelrod, Toby

Description

xviii, 220 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "Born at the dawn of the twentieth century in a poor Jewish neighborhood in Berlin, Regina Jonas became the first ordained woman rabbi in the history of Judaism.
• Her brutal death at the hands of the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1944 might have forever obscured her compelling story if a collection of her personal documents had not been discovered after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
• Now author, Judiac scholar, and feminist Elisa Klapheck has written the biography of this exceptional and courageous woman after years of studying Jonas's papers and recreating her life story."

Uniform Title

Regina Jonas. English

Alternative Title

Regina Jonas.

Subject

• Jonas, Regina, 1902-1944
• Women rabbis > Germany > Berlin > Biography
• Jews > Germany > Berlin > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "An Arthur Kurzweil book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Hermann Simon -- My Journey Toward Regina Jonas -- The Story of Regina Jonas -- Preliminary Notes: On the Halachic Treatise of Regina Jonas -- Halachic Treatise: Can Women Serve As Rabbis? / Regina Jonas -- Structure of the Talmud (According to Maimonides) -- Additional Halachic Compendia and Commentaries.

ISBN

0787969877

LCCN

2004014533^^

OCLC

• 55871010
• SCSB-11619941

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library