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Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001. She was born in
Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001. She was born in Vienna
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. Eveline survived the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...
by hiding with her family in the Netherlands. She was privately ordained in Jerusalem in October 2000 by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Chipman. She later led the liberal Jewish community in Vienna for one year, beginning in 2001.
In 1999, she was the founding director of the Herman Cohen Academy for European Jewish Studies in Buchen, Odenwald, Germany.
See also
*Timeline of women rabbis
This is a timeline of women rabbis.
* Pre-modern figures
** 1590–1670: Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi of Jewish history by some scholars.
** 1805–1888 Hannah Rachel Verbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir) was the only ...
References
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