Alina Treiger

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Alina Treiger (2010)

Alina Treiger (born March 8, 1979 in Poltava , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German liberal rabbi .

Life

Alina Treiger was born in Ukraine and grew up in a Jewish milieu in Poltava. Her father is Jewish, was not allowed to study and consequently worked in a factory. Her mother, a trained food technician, was involved in the Jewish community but did not join her until 2013. Alina Treiger, who saw herself as a Jew since childhood, was accepted into the Jewish community as a teenager. She took part in youth activities and Jewish summer camps and traveled to Israel with the Jewish Agency in 1998 . Treiger first studied music and was eventually trained as a community worker at the Machon of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) in Moscow for two years. At the age of 21 she founded the liberal Jewish community of Beit Am in Poltava . In 2002 Treiger came to Berlin thanks to the mediation of the WUPJ and received training for the rabbinate at the Abraham Geiger College of the University of Potsdam . The college is a member of the WUPJ and also enables women to receive academic training as rabbis and cantors. In her thesis, Treiger wrote about upbringing on mitzvot - or the status of the child in the halacha . In addition to her master's degree in Jewish Studies, she studied religious studies and psychology. In addition to her native Ukrainian, she speaks Russian, Hebrew, English and German.

On November 4, 2010, Alina Treiger was ordained a rabbi together with two male fellow students in the Pestalozzistraße synagogue in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Her ordination saying is: "For this is very near to you to do it in your mouth and in your heart" (Deuteronomy 30:14). Federal President Christian Wulff and the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Charlotte Knobloch , as well as rabbis from Germany and abroad were also present at the ordination ceremony . Treiger has been the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since the Shoah and the second female rabbi to be trained in Germany. The first female rabbi, Regina Jonas , was ordained in 1935, worked in the Jewish community in Berlin from 1937 and was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 . From 1995 to 2004 the Swiss rabbi Bea Wyler headed the Jewish community in Oldenburg.

Alina Treiger looks after the Jewish communities of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst, which currently (2010) have around 400 members. She is married to a former fellow student. On March 27, 2011, she was inducted into office at a festive ceremony in Oldenburg. The Lower Saxony state rabbi Jonah Sievers presented her with the Oldenburg Torah scroll.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Kerstin Krupp: Die Rabbinerin , in: Frankfurter Rundschau of November 3, 2010 with the quote: "But I knew that I was Jewish."
  2. ↑ Cf. Felix Zimmermann: Now it's called Tacheles ( Memento from April 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: Oldenburger Lokalteil, March 27, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Treiger, Alina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Poltava , Ukrainian SSR