Table of Contents
Preface – Honoring the Legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: A Call to Let Religious Women Write Alternative Narratives of the Future, Denise L. EgerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction – Women as Religious Leaders, Hartmut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter HomolkaI. 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 Goldman
- Women Students at the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Esther Seidel
- “The Woman in the House of God” (1926) Revisited,Hartmut Bomhoff
- Paving the Road to Women Rabbis, 1889–2015, Pamela Nadell
II. Three Pioneers of Female Leadership: Henrietta Szold, Margarete Susman, and Regina Jonas
- Henrietta Szold: A “Pretty Certain Miriam”, Gail Twersky Reimer
- The Religious as the Political in Margarete Susman, Elisa Klapheck
- Remembering Regina Jonas: On the Intersectionality of Women’s, Jewish, German, and Holocaust History, Katharina von Kellenbach
- Memory and Identity: Female Leadership and the Legacy of Regina Jonas, Stefanie Sinclair
III. Personal Reflections
- They Married What They Wanted to Be? Rebbetzins and their Unconventional Paths to Power, Shuly Rubin Schwartz
- Looking Back: Religion as Container for Memory and Tradition, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
IV. 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 Wacker
- The Impact of Women in Protestant Christian Ministry Today, Renate Jost
- Rereading Male Chauvinism: Muslim Women’s Own Approach to Their Holy Text, Katajun Amirpur
- The Ordination of Women and the Question of Religious Authority, Judith Frishman
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