1. Regina Jonas was born into a "strictly religious" household in the Berlin Scheunenviertel, the second child of Wolf Jonas and Sara Hess.
14 Facts About Regina Jonas
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Regina Jonas graduated in 1930, her diploma only naming her as an "Academic Teacher of Religion".
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Regina Jonas then applied to Rabbi Leo Baeck, spiritual leader of German Jewry, who had taught her at the seminary.
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For nearly five years, Regina Jonas taught religious studies in a series of both public and Jewish schools, and performed a series of 'unofficial' sermons.
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Regina Jonas found support in the Women's International Zionist Organization, which enabled her to work as a chaplain in various Jewish social institutions.
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In 1938, Regina Jonas wrote a letter to Martin Buber, an Austrian Jewish philosopher, where she expressed some interest in emigrating to Palestine to possibly pursue potential rabbinical opportunities there.
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On 4 November 1942, Regina Jonas had to fill out a declaration form that listed her property, including her books.
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Regina Jonas worked in the Theresienstadt camp for two years.
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Records of some 23 sermons written by Regina Jonas survive, including What Is Power Nowadays - Jewish Religion, the Power Source for Our Ego Ethics and Religion.
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Regina Jonas is discussed briefly in a 1984 paper by Robert Gordis who notes Jonas was an early example of the ordination of a woman as rabbi.
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Regina Jonas's literary work was rediscovered in 1991 by Dr Katharina von Kellenbach, a researcher and lecturer in the department of philosophy and theology at St Mary's College of Maryland, who had been born in Germany.
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Regina Jonas found an envelope containing the only two existing photos of Regina Jonas, as well as Jonas' rabbinical diploma, teaching certificate, seminary dissertation and other personal documents, in an archive in East Berlin.
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On 5 April 2014, an original chamber opera, titled "Regina Jonas" and written by composer Elisha Denburg and librettist Maya Rabinovitch, premiered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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In 2014, a memorial plaque to Regina Jonas was unveiled at the former Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic, where she had been deported to and worked in for two years.