n't viewed to be flattering for Christian women being dominant members of society to be fully involved in male labor. Whereas, Jewish individuals viewed to be subordinates to the rest of society were assumed to take any role to bring home an income. The Jewish women travelling to the fairs to sell their goods did not detract from a woman's reputation but on the contrary if a woman made as much money as Gluckel did, it brought additional marriage proposals, because it showed a woman's commitment to her husband. Therefore in her memoirs Gluckel uses her experiences as a businesswoman to teach her children the value of hard work. But as Davis emphasizes in her book the role of businesswomen was very contrast between the German Jewish women such as the widowed Gluckel and the German Christian women during seventeenth and eighteenth century Germany.The comparison of German Jewish women's lives to that of German Christian women's lives, using the primary source of Gluckel of Hameln is the focus of analysis. This source says a great deal about the attitudes structures beliefs and concerns prevalent during this time period. Gluckel emphasizes that there were many great differences between the lives of Jewish women and Christian women and the two have been analyzed in the above pages. This document shows that there were two co-existing conditions of life, which existed in Hamburg during this time. There was the condition of life available to the Jews and there was the life, which existed to the Christians. Jews had no right of residence in Hamburg and many were living there purely at the mercy of the Town Council, who granted them temporary residence citizens for work purposes. The difficulties besetting the Jews everywhere, the endless threats they were subjected to, the need for special papers and permits of residence, was a constant backdrop, which Gluckel describes in her memoirs. Gluckel characterizes the situation in Hamburg as...
