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How Did Gliki Get Married
After her husband’s death Gliki had to do get her life and finances in order she could not afford to support all of her living children that were not yet married. As a survival strategy Gliki married off her 8 children. The reason why she made her kids all get married was because she knew that if she continued to support them she would not be able to afford the cost of living with 8 kids still alive. The cost of living during this time made it more difficult for Gliki without her husband because he was the main breadwinner of the family. This was a common theme among the Jewish people of the seventeenth century “Gliki was left a widow with her eight children still at home to raise, dower, and marry. In the next years, she carried on the Jewish

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