num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: German
title: Die Memoiren der Glückel von Hameln
titlecomplete: Die Memoiren der Glückel von Hameln
genres: Biography, Religion, Memoir, Nonfiction, Jewish, School, Judaica, Autobiography, Judaism, History
ratings_count: 490
series: The HBI Series on Jewish Women
publisher: Beltz Athenäum