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Women in the margins by natalie zeamon davis

This location was convenient for the Jews for trading and for business but in the 1650's they were later expelled with pressure from the Burgerschaft also know as town officials. In the following years the German Jews snuck back into Hamburg to trade braving attacks by soldiers and sailors as they passed through. In 1657 the Senate allowed the hochdeutshe Juden to reside in Hamburg again but under certain conditions. First the German Jews were not to scandalize Christians by practicing their religion within its walls. In attending the synagogue or burying their dead they must go to Altona, which became the new German Jewish cultural center. .
             The word "margin" applies to Glikl in many ways. The Christians are on the margins of the Jewish world. They surround the German Jews with their institutions and worldly control. This is an example of the conflict between Christian and Jewish societies. There is no room for Judaism to expand within a Christian dominated Germany. The Christian society depicted by Davis is seen as a threat to limit and concentrate the Jewish population and eventually remove them from society, this is an example of anti-Semitism long before the existence of Nazi Germany. Glikl and the German Jewish population's existence within Germany could be described as marginal as well because of what their experiences entail with the interactions of trade and business. The Jews have contractual obligations to the Christians in which they are honored in the most serious way and they pay wages to the Christians as well. Also the term margin could be used to describe Glikl's experience with religion. With her having a proud self-image in her religion, while being engulfed in a Christian Europe. Her pride in her religion carried over into her life as wife, merchant, and as a resident of a German speaking land. The word margin is used to describe the prelude to the changes in society in which she belongs to.


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