Global History 3 - the Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Global History 3

This assignment asks you to read the Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. She is a woman at multiple crossroads: modernity versus antiquity, West versus non-Western, Judaism versus secularism and Christianity...She is many things at one time and her memoirs give us insight into the ways she negotiates her identity in a world when individual identity was just starting to be something people put front and center. 

In a two to three page analysis, please write about Gluckel's memoirs and the ways in which she characterizes and understands the world in which she lives. How does she see herself and her family? How does she understand the ways in which her family functions in the broader global world? How does she feel about the way the world is changing, as people turn toward more modern ways of interacting with the world? How does her religion play a key role in her life? These are all questions you can consider as you write, but you do not need to address every one of them.