Jonah Sievers

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Jonah Sievers (2009)

Jonah Sievers (* 1971 in Hanover ) is a German rabbi and has been a community rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin since 2015. He primarily serves in the Pestalozzistraße synagogue . Sievers is a managing member of the board of directors of the General Rabbinical Conference of Germany .

Life

Sievers studied economics in Hanover up to the intermediate diploma and in 1996 switched to the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg . From 1997 to 2002 he graduated from Leo Baeck College in London , where he was ordained a rabbi . His specialty is Jewish law . After completing his studies, he was appointed community rabbi in Braunschweig in 2002 and state rabbi of Lower Saxony in 2008. In 2015 he moved to Berlin. Together with Andreas Nachama, he is the editor of the Jewish prayer book in four volumes ( Siddur and Machsor ).

Publications

  • Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers (ed.): Jewish prayer book Hebrew-German: Shabbat and working days . 3. Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-02595-7 (296 pages).
  • Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers (eds.): Jewish prayer book - Pessach / Shawuot / Sukkot Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-02597-1 .
  • Michael Shire , Walter Homolka , Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers, Annette Böckler : Die Pessach Haggada Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942271-89-9 .
  • Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers (ed.): Jewish prayer book - Rosch Haschana Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2013, ISBN 978-3-579-02599-5 .
  • Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers (ed.): Jewish prayer book - Yom Kippur Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2013, ISBN 978-3-579-07410-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rabbi Jonah Sievers. at ark.de, accessed on April 7, 2013.