This is a timeline of women rabbis. * 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. * 1890s: Ray Frank, a young Jewish woman living on the American frontier, began delivering sermons in her small Jewish community in the American West. Frank was regarded at the time as the "first woman rabbi". * 1935: In Germany, Regina Jonas was ordained privately and became the world's first ordained female rabbi. * 1972: American Sally Priesand became America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary, and the second formally ordained female rabbi in Jewish history, after Regina Jonas. * 1974: American Sandy