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Women have shaped Judaism and other religions through their leadership in many different ways. This volume analyzes the historical context, current developments, and personal experiences of women in religious leadership that have redefined not just the role of religion, but also the way women understand themselves.
List of contents
Preface - Honoring the Legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: A Call to Let Religious Women Write Alternative Narratives of the Future, Denise L. Eger
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Women as Religious Leaders, Hartmut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter Homolka
I. New Roles for Jewish Women in Modernizing Germany and America
1.The Discourse of the Other: The Transformation of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Yael Kupferberg
2.Patterns of Reform: Tracking Women's Changing Roles in Synagogues and Communal Life within Nineteenth-Century American and German Judaism, Karla Goldman
3.Women Students at the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Esther Seidel
4."The Woman in the House of God" (1926) Revisited, Hartmut Bomhoff
5.Paving the Road to Women Rabbis, 1889-2015, Pamela Nadell
II. Three Pioneers of Female Leadership: Henrietta Szold, Margarete Susman, and Regina Jonas
6.Henrietta Szold: A "Pretty Certain Miriam", Gail Twersky Reimer
7.The Religiou
About the author
Hartmut Bomhoff is senior research fellow at the Abraham Geiger College, University of Potsdam.Denise L. Eger is an international Jewish leader and social justice activist and founding rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami (West Hollywood, CA).Kathy Ehrensperger is research fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, Switzerland.Walter Homolka is professor of Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations.Hartmut Bomhoff is senior research fellow at the Abraham Geiger College, University of Potsdam.Denise L. Eger is an international Jewish leader and social justice activist and founding rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami (West Hollywood, CA).Kathy Ehrensperger is research fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Basel, Switzerland.Walter Homolka is professor of Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations.
Summary
Women have shaped Judaism and other religions through their leadership in many different ways. This volume analyzes the historical context, current developments, and personal experiences of women in religious leadership that have redefined not just the role of religion, but also the way women understand themselves.
