Timeline of women hazzans

This is a timeline of women hazzans worldwide.1884: Julie Rosewald, called "Cantor Soprano" by her congregation, became America's first female cantor, serving San Francisco's Temple Emanu-El from 1884 until 1893, although she was not ordained. She was born in Germany. 1955: Betty Robbins, born in Greece, became the first female cantor to serve in the twentieth century in America when she was hired at Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York. Mid-1950s: Esther Ghan Firestone became the first female cantor in Canada, although she was not ordained. 1975: Barbara Ostfeld-Horowitz became the first ordained female cantor in Jewish history. 1978: Mindy Jacobsen became the first blind woman to be ordained as a cantor. 1978: Linda Rich became the first female cantor to sing in a Conservative synagogue in 1978, although she was not ordained until 1996 when she finally received her ordination of "Hazzan Minister" from the "Jewish Theological Seminary" in New York. 1987: Erica Lippitz and Marla Rosenfeld Barugel became the first female cantors in Conservative Judaism. 1982: Women Cantors Network, an international outreach support group for female cantors, which works for the nationwide recognition and employment of qualified female cantors, was founded in 1982 by cantor Deborah Katchko-Zimmerman, who was the granddaughter of a prominent cantor, and who was trained privately by her father, also a cantor. 1990: The Cantors Assembly, an international professional organization of cantors associated with Conservative Judaism, began allowing women to join. 1993: Leslie Friedlander became the first female cantor ordained by the Academy for Jewish Religion. 1998: Rebecca Garfein, born in Tallahassee, Florida, became the first female cantor to preside in a German synagogue.

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