https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/daphne-merkin-on-women-and-mon/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/daphne-merkin-on-women-and-mon/#comment-529131 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:01:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/daphne-merkin-on-women-and-mon/#comment-529131 By the “nu,” I take it her father was Jewish. Now back in Europe (pre-war), in Jewish culture women were considered the appropriate gender for dealing with the market-place. Men were supposed to study Torah (bible). A good wife would support her man by her market dealings while he kept his mind on higher stuff. Upper class Jewish women (perhaps more assimilated?) generally didn’t work. Unless they needed to run the business. See the memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, a 17th century Jewish woman who, though an upper class woman, took over the business when her husband died.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/01/02/daphne-merkin-on-women-and-mon/#comment-529130 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:07:55 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/01/02/daphne-merkin-on-women-and-mon/#comment-529130 Heard Franken is up by 225?

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