# "Boiled in Oil: Becoming the First Syrian Woman Rabbi," by Dianne Cohler-Esses

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Written during her first year at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1990, Dianne Cohler-Esses's personal essay explores her experience preparing to become to enter rabbinical school to become the first Syrian-Jewish woman to become a rabbi, and the first Syrian-Jewish non-Orthodox rabbi through seven conversations with her parents, their friends, and a rabbi in her community.

  
Used with permission of Dianne Cohler-Esses, 1990. [View PDF](/sites/default/files/jwa015b.pdf).



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Date / time

1990

 

 

Owner

Cohler-Esses, Dianne 

 

Date published

1990

 

Author(s)

Cohler-Esses, Dianne