Eveline Goodman-Thau Explained

Eveline Goodman-Thau (born 1934) was the first female rabbi in Austria, a job she began in 2001.[1] [2] [3] She was born in Vienna.[4] Eveline survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the Netherlands. Her siblings are Religious Zionist rabbi Zvi Thau and Gerda Elata-Alster, a former professor of Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University.

Eveline Goodman-Thau was privately ordained in Jerusalem in October 2000 by Orthodox rabbi Jonathan Chipman.[5] [6] She later led the liberal Jewish community in Vienna for one year, beginning in 2001.[4]

In 1999, she was the founding director of the Herman Cohen Academy for European Jewish Studies in Buchen, Odenwald, Germany.[3] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: How the Holocaust Looks Now: International Perspectives. M. Davies. C. Szejnmann. xvi. Springer. 2006. 9780230286566.
  2. Web site: Austria Gets First Female Rabbi. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 8 May 2001. 29 October 2014.
  3. Web site: Religionen : Weltfrieden .: Goodman-Thau . Religionenundweltfrieden.de . 2012-02-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120426052220/http://www.religionenundweltfrieden.de/typo3/index.php?id=137 . 2012-04-26 . dead .
  4. Web site: Faculty Forum - A very special welcome to Rabbi Eveline Goodman-Thau . SPME . 2000-10-18 . 2012-02-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120427043059/http://spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=456 . 2012-04-27 . dead .
  5. Web site: Eastern Suffolk BOCES School Library System Union Catalog . Sks.sirs.es.vrc.scoolaid.net . 2008-10-15 . 2012-02-18.
  6. Web site: Ordained As Rabbis, Women Tell Secret - New York Times . . 2000-12-21 . 2012-02-18.

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