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Lecture: Choosing Our Jewish Mothers: Gliki von Hamein – A Feminist Ahead of Her Time?

Published on 13 October 2026

18 October 2026 at 3.00 pm at the Jewish Cultural Association of Nancy

Johanna Colette Lemler, producer of the podcast ‘Notre Haggadah’, which focuses on stories of Jewish women’s emancipation, looks back on this remarkable life. Namely that of Gliki von Hamein, a woman who led many lives: in the seventeenth century, she was a businesswoman living in Metz, a mother of 12 children and the author of one of the first autobiographical accounts written by a Jewish woman. A work written in Yiddish with the intention of passing it on to her children and, four centuries later, sharing it with the public in Nancy…

Dimanche 18 octobre à 15h, Johanna LEMLER interviendra sur le thème  » Choisir nos mères juives : Gliki von Hamein, féministe avant l’heure? » – Association Culturelle Juive de Nancy