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Hamburg

This city is Gluckel's birthplace and where her home and business was for most of her married life.

Altona

This is the name of the village to which twenty-five Jewish families emigrated when they were expelled from the nearby city.

Torah

Jews believe this Jewish book of scripture provides all they need to find and learn the journey through this world to the next.

Reichsthalers

This is the name of German currency during Gluckel's time.

Sephardim

This is a term that refers to the Spanish-Portuguese Jews that settle in the main city prior to the German Jews.

Vilna Jews

This group of Jews was forced to leave Poland, some of whom Gluckel's father took into his home.

Hanover

Gluckel's wedding party used this town as a stopping point on the way to the village where she was married.

Hameln

Gluckel was married in this village at the...

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