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<span>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.</span>

<span>Preface – Honoring the Legacy of Rabbiner Regina Jonas: A Call to Let Religious Women Write Alternative Narratives of the Future, </span>
<span>Denise L. Eger</span>
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<span>Acknowledgments</span>
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<span>Introduction – </span>
<a><span>Women as Religious Leaders</span></a>
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<span>Hartmut Bomhoff, Denise L. Eger, Kathy Ehrensperger, Walter Homolka</span>
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<span>I. New Roles for Jewish Women in Modernizing Germany and America </span>
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<li><span>The Discourse of the Other: The Transformation of the Jewish Woman in Nineteenth-Century Germany, </span><span>Yael Kupferberg </span></li>
<li><span>Patterns of Reform: Tracking Women’s Changing Roles in Synagogues and Communal Life within Nineteenth-Century American and German Judaism, </span><span>Karla Goldman</span></li>
<li><span>Women Students at the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, </span><span>Esther Seidel</span></li>
<li><span>“The Woman in the House of God” (1926) Revisited,</span><span>Hartmut Bomhoff</span></li>
<li><span>Paving the Road to Women Rabbis, 1889–2015, </span><span>Pamela Nadell</span></li>
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<span>II. Three Pioneers of Female Leadership: Henrietta Szold, Margarete Susman, and Regina Jonas</span>
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<li><span>Henrietta Szold: A “Pretty Certain Miriam”, </span><span>Gail Twersky Reimer</span></li>
<li><span>The Religious as the Political in Margarete Susman, </span><span>Elisa Klapheck</span></li>
<li><span>Remembering Regina Jonas: On the Intersectionality of Women’s, Jewish, German, and Holocaust History, </span><span>Katharina von Kellenbach</span></li>
<li><span>Memory and Identity: Female Leadership and the Legacy of Regina Jonas, </span><span>Stefanie Sinclair</span></li>
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<span>III. Personal Reflections</span>
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<li><span>They Married What They Wanted to Be? Rebbetzins and their Unconventional Paths to Power, </span><span>Shuly Rubin Schwartz</span></li>
<li><span>Looking Back: Religion as Container for Memory and Tradition, </span><span>Sandy Eisenberg Sasso</span></li>
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<span>IV. Comparing Notes: Female Religious Leadership Today</span>
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<li><span>Women’s Leadership in the Roman Catholic Church: A Survey of Half a Century’s Development with Particular Reference to Germany, </span><span>Marie-Theres Wacker</span></li>
<li><span>The Impact of Women in Protestant Christian Ministry Today, </span><span>Renate Jost</span></li>
<li><span>Rereading Male Chauvinism: Muslim Women’s Own Approach to Their Holy Text, </span><span>Katajun Amirpur</span></li>
<li><span>The Ordination of Women and the Question of Religious Authority, </span><span>Judith Frishman</span></li>
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<span>About the Editors</span>
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<span>About the Contributors</span>
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<span>Hartmut Bomhoff</span>
<span> is senior research fellow at the Abraham Geiger College, University of Potsdam. <br><br></span>
<span>Denise L. Eger </span>
<span>is an international Jewish leader and social justice activist and founding rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami (West Hollywood, CA).<br><br></span>
<span>Kathy Ehrensperger</span>
<span> is research professor of New Testament in Jewish perspective at the<br>Abraham Geiger Kolleg, University of Potsdam. <br><br></span>
<span>Walter Homolka</span>
<span> is professor of Jewish theology at the University of Potsdam and coeditor of the </span>
<span>Encyclopedia of Jewish-Christian Relations</span>
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