This is a timeline of women rabbis. * Pre-modern figures * 1590–1670: Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi of Jewish history by some scholars. * 1805–1888 Hannah Rachel Verbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir) was the only independent female Rebbe in the history of Hasidism. * 1800s?: Malka of Trisk, de facto leader of a Hasidic community in Trisk. * 1800s?-1939: Sarah Horowitz-Sternfeld, known as the Khentshiner Rebbetzin, based in Chęciny, Poland, described as a de facto Hasidic leader. * Modern figures * 1875: Miss Julia Ettlinger (1863-1890), the first female student at Hebrew Union College. * 1890s: Lena Aronsohn of Hot Springs, Arkansas set out to become a rabbi by providing public lectures to the Jewish community in Shreveport, Louisiana to earn enough money to pu