Regina Jonas
E53410
Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Regina Jonas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T348604 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regina Jonas Context triple: [Reform Judaism, hasKeyFigure, Regina Jonas]
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A.
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein was a Holocaust survivor and the mother of American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein.
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B.
Anita Gütermann
Anita Gütermann was a German heiress from the Gütermann industrial family who became known as the first wife of renowned conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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C.
Käthe Jerosch
Käthe Jerosch was the wife of the influential German mathematician David Hilbert and a member of the academic social circles in Göttingen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Marie Krackowizer
Marie Krackowizer was the wife of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas and a supportive partner in his academic and intellectual life.
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E.
Eva Schubach
Eva Schubach is known as a former spouse of Gerhard Schröder, the one-time Chancellor of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Regina Jonas Target entity description: Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
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A.
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein
Maryla Husyt Finkelstein was a Holocaust survivor and the mother of American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein.
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B.
Anita Gütermann
Anita Gütermann was a German heiress from the Gütermann industrial family who became known as the first wife of renowned conductor Herbert von Karajan.
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C.
Käthe Jerosch
Käthe Jerosch was the wife of the influential German mathematician David Hilbert and a member of the academic social circles in Göttingen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Marie Krackowizer
Marie Krackowizer was the wife of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas and a supportive partner in his academic and intellectual life.
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E.
Eva Schubach
Eva Schubach is known as a former spouse of Gerhard Schröder, the one-time Chancellor of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German rabbi
ⓘ
person ⓘ pioneer of women’s ordination ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1944 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder in Auschwitz ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | memorials and scholarly works on women in the rabbinate ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | German Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1902-08-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1944-10-12 ⓘ |
| denomination | Liberal Judaism in Germany ⓘ |
| deportedTo |
AuschwitzBirkenau
ⓘ
surface form:
Auschwitz concentration camp
Theresienstadt concentration camp ⓘ
surface form:
Theresienstadt Ghetto
|
| educatedAt | Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Jonas ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Jewish religious education
ⓘ
rabbinic leadership ⓘ |
| givenName |
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
ⓘ
surface form:
Regina
|
| hasRoleInHistory | first woman to hold formal rabbinic title in modern Judaism ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Holocaust
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ |
| knownFor | pastoral care and preaching in Berlin ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| legacy |
inspiration for women rabbis worldwide
ⓘ
subject of posthumous recognition in Jewish communities ⓘ |
| movement |
Reform Judaism
ⓘ
surface form:
German Liberal Judaism
|
| notableFor |
being the first woman ordained as a rabbi
ⓘ
pioneering role in 20th-century German Reform Judaism ⓘ symbol of Holocaust-era persecution ⓘ symbol of religious innovation ⓘ |
| occupation |
rabbi
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| ordainedBy | Max Dienemann ⓘ |
| ordinationAsRabbi | 1935 ⓘ |
| performedPastoralWorkIn | Berlin Jewish community ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Berlin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
AuschwitzBirkenau
ⓘ
surface form:
Auschwitz concentration camp
|
| primaryLanguageSpoken | German ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousMovement | Reform Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| victimOf | Holocaust ⓘ |
| workLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Regina Jonas Description of subject: Regina Jonas was the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi, a pioneering figure in 20th-century German Reform Judaism and a symbol of both religious innovation and Holocaust-era persecution.
Referenced by (3)
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