The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln - by Gluckel (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Begun in 1690, this diary of a 44 year old German Jewish widow, mother of 14 children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children. A document in the history of 17th century women.

From the Back Cover

Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century.This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.

About the Author

GLÜCKEL OF HAMELN (1646-1724) was a German-Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of life provides scholars with an intimate picture of communal life in the late-17th-early 18th century Jewish ghetto.