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Gliki's Influence On Early Modern European Women

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Throughout early modern Europe women like other times in history did not have the same rights or even the same privileges as men. In the case of Gliki it was the same but she was raised differently. She was not your typical Jewish merchant she saw and thought of things differently than others; for the lessons she has learned in her childhood and how she carries herself. “She had attended Cheder, the Jewish primary school: “my father educated his children, son and daughters both, in things heavenly and worldly” (23).
I referenced this example because in early times modern Europe and often times elsewhere girls and boys were not treated the same. Often times when people would put their children into school it would usually only be the boys they

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