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Mary Hamilton Swindler

American archaeologist, classical art scholar, author, and professor

Helen Maybury Roe

Irish librarian and antiquary

Katharine Coman

Influential American social activist and educator.

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

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.