Gender and Religious Leadership

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 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 About the Editors About the Contributors