Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.
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Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Maria of Jever
The last ruler of the Lordship of Jever from the Wiemken family. She reigned from 1517 until her death on February 20, 1575.
Harriet Powers
American folk artist and quilter.
Hazrat Babajan
Pashtun Muslim saint, considered by her followers to be a Sadguru (”true guru”) or Qutub (in Sufism, the perfect human being, a spiritual leader who has a divine connection with God and passes knowledge on).
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Wife of Muhammad
Ava
The first poetess to write in German
Alice Coltrane
Luminary in both the world of American jazz and Hindu spirituality.
Tachibana Ginchiyo
Tachibana Ginchiyo (立花 誾千代) was a renowned onna-musha (female warrior) during Japan’s Sengoku period.
Maria Voce
Maria Voce is an Italian lawyer and theologian, who served as the president of the Focolare Movement from 7 July 2008, to 31 January 2021.