Assignment Papers-What do these memoirs reveal about the lives of women in the seventeenth-century Hamburg Jewish community? 

Assignment Papers-What do these memoirs reveal about the lives of women in the seventeenth-century Hamburg Jewish community?

1. What do these memoirs reveal about the lives of women in the seventeenth-century Hamburg Jewish community?

2. What, if anything, do these memoirs reveal about the Jewish community in Hamburg and their relationship to the Christian majority?

3. What kinds of networks connected this small, minority community to the broader global trends we’ve been discussing in class? And how did Glückel’s professional and personal achievements reflect these connections?