Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55871010

Responsibility statement

Elisa Klapheck ; translated from the German by Toby Axelrod

Review

"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

Sub title

the story of the first woman rabbi

Summary

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 WallNow 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."

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