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The Maiden of Ludmir (Yiddish: לודמירער מױד, romanized: Ludmirer Moyd, Hebrew: הבתולה מלודמיר, romanized: HabBeṭulah milLuḏmir), Hannah Rachel Verbermacher (Yiddish: חנה רחל ווערבערמאכער, romanized: Hane Rokhl Verbermakher, 1805–1888), [notes 1] also known rarely as the Ludmirer Rebbe, [1] was the only independent female rebbe in the history of ...
The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories (1991) by Eileen Pollack — Pollack's work features an Old-World male rabbi and his leftist female successor. They Called Her Rebbe: The Maiden of Ludomir (1991) by Gershon Winkler — This historical novel details the life a Hasidic female leader. [220]
This is a timeline of women rabbis: . 1930s. 1935: In Germany, Regina Jonas became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. [1]1970s: 1972: Sally Priesand became America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas.
Teitelbaum's status as Rebbetzin was gained through her marriage to the first Rebbe (leader) of the Satmar Hasidic community, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum (1887–1979). After her husband's death, the Satmar Rebbetzin gained a following of supporters who stood in opposition to her husband's successor, the second Rebbe of Satmar, Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum ...
[citation needed] Deutsch is the Rebbe of Anshei-Liozna, a Chasidic court that is centered in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He has been the Liozna Rebbe since 1995. The group appointed him their Rebbe at their synagogue on 45th Street in Brooklyn. He took the name of the town of Liozna in Belarus (where the early Chabad movement was founded). [7]
In Katowice (Kattowitz), German Empire in 1912 appointed to the council were Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866–1948) Rebbe of Ger (Chairman), Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneerson Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Halevy, Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, Rabbi Itzela of Ponevezh, Rabbi Shlomo ...
The Hasidic Rebbe Aharon Roth reportedly insisted on the use of this term. While Schachter-Shalomi notes that Hasidim valued the living guide over the use of books, some Rebbes, such as Shalom Dovber of Lubavitch , wrote various tracts for different types of spiritual seekers.
A. Éliette Abécassis; Dinah Abrahamson; Dina Abramowicz; Rachel Abrams; Jill Abramson; Anna Abulafia; Martha Ackelsberg; Kathy Acker; Shelley Ackerman; Ada Adler