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Overlooked No More: Regina Jonas, Upon Whose Shoulders ‘All Female Rabbis Stand’

Regina Jonas in a photograph presumed to have been taken after 1939. Her stamp on the back of the photograph bears the compulsory name of “Sara,” which all Jewish women had to bear after 1939 and reads “Rabbi Regina Sara Jonas.”
Courtesy of Stiftung “Neue Synagoge Berlin – Centrum Judaicum,” Berlin

Jonas was officially ordained as a rabbi in Germany in 1935, just as conditions were worsening for Jews. She was killed at Auschwitz when she was 42.

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