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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
The Discourse of the Other: The Transformation of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Germany, Yael Kupferberg Patterns of Reform: Tracking Women's Changing Roles in Synagogues and Communal Life within Nineteenth-Century American and German Judaism, Karla GoldmanWomen Students at the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Esther Seidel"The Woman in the House of God" (1926) Revisited,Hartmut BomhoffPaving the Road to Women Rabbis, 1889-2015, Pamela NadellII. Three Pioneers of Female Leadership: Henrietta Szold, Margarete Susman, and Regina Jonas
Henrietta Szold: A "Pretty Certain Miriam", Gail Twersky ReimerThe Religious as the Political in Margarete Susman, Elisa KlapheckRemembering Regina Jonas: On the Intersectionality of Women's, Jewish, German, and Holocaust History, Katharina von KellenbachMemory and Identity: Female Leadership and the Legacy of Regina Jonas, Stefanie SinclairIII. Personal Reflections
They Married What They Wanted to Be? Rebbetzins and their Unconventional Paths to Power, Shuly Rubin SchwartzLooking Back: Religion as Container for Memory and Tradition, Sandy Eisenberg SassoIV. Comparing Notes: Female Religious Leadership Today
Women's Leadership in the Roman Catholic Church: A Survey of Half a Century's Development with Particular Reference to Germany, Marie-Theres WackerThe Impact of Women in Protestant Christian Ministry Today, Renate JostRereading Male Chauvinism: Muslim Women's Own Approach to Their Holy Text, Katajun AmirpurThe Ordination of Women and the Question of Religious Authority, Judith FrishmanAbout the Editors
About the Contributors
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 professor of New Testament in Jewish perspective at the
Abraham Geiger Kolleg, University of Potsdam.
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.
