Antje Deusel

Antje Deusel (born 1960 in Nuremberg) is the first German-born woman to be ordained as a rabbi in Germany since the Nazi era.^[1] She was ordained in 2011 by Abraham Geiger College, and as of 2013 has a part-time position at Or Chaim.^[1]^[2]

Publications

Anus-praeter complications. Dissertation. Erlangen / Nuremberg 1987 with Ortwin Beisbart (ed.): Memorial Book of the Jewish citizens of Bamberg. Victims of Nazi terror 1933–1945. White, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940821-10-2
My covenant, which ye shall keep it. Religious Legal and medical aspects of circumcision. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Wien, 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30612-9

References

^ ^a ^b "Germany's first female German-born rabbi since the Nazi era - The Canadian Jewish News". Retrieved 29 October 2014.
^ http://www.eupj.org%2Fpublications%2Feupj%2Fnewsletters%2Fcategory%2F1-newsletters-2011%3Fdownload%3D19%253Aeupj-newsletter-2011-12&ei=yjTkUdiWG8uw7Abf84DgCg&usg=AFQjCNGQXGliJSJIYH-QslOffFTeYtTEuA^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Article about Antje Yael Deusel on evangelisch.de
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Bamberg
Beitrag auf KircheinBayern.de
Biographie auf ARK Allgemeine Rabinerkonferenz
Jewish community in Bamberg

Women rabbis and Torah scholars

Timeline of women rabbis

Pre-modern
figures

Bible and Talmud	Deborah (1107–1067 BCE) Bruriah (2nd century)
Medieval and early modern era	Rashi's daughters (11th–12th century) Bat ha-Levi (12th century) Paula Dei Mansi (13th century) Miriam Shapira-Luria (14th century) Fioretta of Modena (1522–1580) Bayla Falk (16th century) Eva Bacharach (1580–1651) Asenath Barzani (1590–1670) Frehat Bat Avraham (d. 1756) Maiden of Ludmir (1805–1888)

Modern figures

Ray Frank (1861–1948)
Lily Montagu (1873–1963)
Regina Jonas (1902–1944)
Tehilla Lichtenstein (1893–1973)
Paula Ackerman (1893–1989)
Martha Neumark (1904–1981)
Avis Clamitz (1908-1991)
Helen Levinthal (1910–1989)
Sally Priesand (b. 1946)
Mimi Feigelson (b. 1963)

First ordination by denomination	Regina Jonas (Reform, 1935) Sandy Sasso (Reconstructionist, 1974) Lynn Gottlieb (Renewal, 1981) Amy Eilberg (Conservative, 1985) Tamara Kolton (Humanistic, 1999) Sara Hurwitz (Orthodox, 2009)