Reading Assignment Please write answers to the following questions. Use the Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln to complete your answer
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Reading Glückel of Hameln
Jews On The Move and Questions of Communal Cohesion
Migration and Settlement of Expelled Spanish (Sephardic) Jews
The Venetian Empire, late 7th Century to 1797
Venice, The City of the Jews
Port City Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism
Diversity and Mutual Respect for reasons of getting along
Part of single community
Special Set of Obligations and Privileges
Hamburg, ca. 1600
Hamburg today
Glückel of Hameln
A “fancy portrait” of Bertha Pappenheim in the persona of Glückel, wearing 17th century costume. The portrait is painted in a pastiche of the style of the period by Leopold Pilichowski. Pappenheim was a descendant of Glückel, who also translated the diaries into German.
Reading Assignment 2
What do these memoirs reveal about the lives of women in the seventeenth-century Hamburg Jewish community?
What do these memoirs reveal about the Jewish community in Hamburg and their relationship to the Christian majority?
What kinds of networks connected this small, minority community to the broader global trends we’ve been discussing in class?
