Editing Julia Neuberger (section)

==Early life==
Neuberger was born Julia Babette Sarah Schwab in the [[Hampstead]] area of London on 27 February 1950, the daughter of art critic Liesel ("Alice") and civil servant Walter Schwab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/neuberger-julia-babette-sarah-1950|title=Neuberger, Julia (Babette Sarah) 1950- &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> Her mother was a [[History of the Jews in Germany|German-Jewish]] refugee who had fled the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]], arriving in England at the age of 22 in 1937, while her father was born in England to German-Jewish immigrants who had settled there before the [[First World War]]. The Schwab Trust, which supports and educates young refugees and asylum seekers, was later set up in her parents' name.<ref name="schwab-trust">{{cite web|url=http://www.schwabwestheimertrust.org.uk/|title=The Schwab and Westheimer Trusts homepage|access-date=29 October 2014|archive-date=30 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030001715/http://www.schwabwestheimertrust.org.uk/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She attended [[South Hampstead High School]] and [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], where she first studied [[Assyriology]]. After she was refused entry to [[Turkey]] because she was British, and then to [[Iraq]] because she was Jewish, she had to change her subject and instead studied her second language of [[Hebrew]] full-time. Her lecturer at the [[University of Cambridge]], [[Nicholas de Lange]], suggested she should become a rabbi.<ref>{{Cite archive|collection=Personenarchiv Ruth Weiss|institution=Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB)|item=Interview with Rabbi Julia Neuberger, the first female rabbi in Great Britain who had her own synagogue|item-url=http://baslerafrikabibliographien-archiv.faust-web.de/nav.FAU?sid=2FE9BEDD10&dm=1&erg=H&npos=1|item-id=TPA.43 165|first=Ruth|last=Weiss|type=audio recording|date=January 9, 1987}}</ref> She obtained her rabbinic diploma at [[Leo Baeck College]]. She was the second woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the UK,<ref>{{cite web |title=Julia Neuberger |url=https://jwa.org/rabbis/narrators/neuberger-julia/|website=Jewish Women's Archive}}</ref> the first being [[Jackie Tabick]] in 1975.