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Tanya Segal

Tanya Segal is an Israeli rabbi who was the first full-time female rabbi in Poland and the first female rabbi in the Czech Republic.

born 1957First full-time female rabbi in PolandFirst female rabbi in the Czech RepublicFounding the Midrash Theatre

Occupation: singer, rabbi, director, theatre director
Education: Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion – New York

Tanya Segal was born in 1957 in Moscow

Tanya Segal was born in Moscow in 1957. She moved to Israel in 1990. She works as a theater director, actress, singer and guitar player.

She studied at Tel Aviv University, where she wrote a master's thesis on weeping in the performance of the Book of Lamentations. She was ordained as a rabbi in 2007 at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem. In 2006 her play And Her Name Was Heather was first staged there.

In December 2007 she became the second rabbi of the Beit Warszawa congregation in Warsaw. In 2008 she founded the Midrash Theatre in Kraków, which she uses as a form of study in her teaching. Since 2009 she has served as rabbi of Beit Kraków, a Progressive Jewish community.

Since August 2019 she has been rabbi of the Jewish Community of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. In 2022 an artwork about her appeared in the exhibit Holy Sparks.