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.
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.
The first Spanish woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
Polish archeologist and ethnographer, writer and social activist
American economist known for her significant contributions to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and as a writer for The New York Times.
Dame Bernice Lake QC was a distinguished Anguillan jurist and legal scholar. In 1985, she became the first Eastern Caribbean woman appointed Queen’s Counsel.
Celticist and literary scholar