Antje Yael Deusel

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Antje Yael Deusel (born in 1960 in Nuremberg as Antje Katharina Deusel ) is a German rabbi and doctor. Since the Holocaust, she is the first Jewish woman of German descent who was also trained as a rabbi in Germany.

Life

After graduating from high school, she first studied at the interpreting institute of the University of Heidelberg, later she switched to studying human medicine at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . After completing her medical degree, she specialized in urology . She supplemented her specialist medical specialization with a qualification in pediatric urology as part of a fellowship at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem-Ein Karem.

After many years on the board of the Jewish Community in Bamberg as well as in community-political committees at the regional association and central council level, Deusel completed a rabbi training at the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, with study visits at the Steinsaltz Institute and the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, together with the scientific one Training for a master's degree in Jewish studies at the University of Potsdam. Her thesis was published on the medical and halachic aspects of Brit Mila under the title "My covenant that you should keep."

Antje Yael Deusel is a senior physician at the Clinic for Urology and Pediatric Urology in Bamberg and has a teaching position in Jewish Studies at the University of Bamberg . She is also a mohelet .

Rabbi in Bamberg

On November 23, 2011, Antje Yael Deusel was ordained a rabbi together with four male fellow students in the Bamberg synagogue . The President of the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam, Walter Jacob , carried out the solemn ceremony in Bamberg. Her ordination motto is: "With you is the source of life, in your light we see light". Minister Joachim Herrmann and the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Dieter Graumann , as well as rabbis from Germany and abroad were also present at the ordination ceremony . Antje Yael Deusel has been the first ordained rabbi of German descent since the Shoah , who was also trained in Germany (Potsdam). 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 .

As a rabbi, Antje Yael Deusel was in charge of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Bamberg . After long disagreements between Deusel and the board of the religious community, the latter terminated her employment contract on March 31, 2015.

Deusel is now rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Congregation Mischkan ha-Tfila Bamberg eV , which was the second Jewish community in Bamberg to emerge.

Publications

  • Anus praeter complications. Dissertation. Erlangen / Nuremberg 1987
  • with Ortwin Beisbart (ed.): Memorial book of the Jewish citizens of Bamberg. Victims of National Socialist Terror 1933-1945. Weiß, Bamberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940821-10-2
  • My covenant that you should keep. Religious Law and Medical Aspects of Circumcision. Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30612-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact persons for the professorship for Jewish Studies. In: www.uni-bamberg.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Contribution to the inauguration in the Bavarian Radio ( Memento from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Olaf Przybilla: How a rabbi argues with her community. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. March 25, 2015, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  4. ^ Marion Krüger-Hundrup: In Bamberg a second Jewish community "No division of supply" is established. In: www.domradio.de. December 20, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Deusel, Antje Yael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deusel, Antje Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg