The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
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Book
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ISBN 10
0805205721
ISBN 13
9780805205725
Category
NON-FICTION
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Pages
296
Subject
Jewishness-Jewish history
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Abstract
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. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived.
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 33102000000492 |
943.044 GLU |
1 | Leo Baeck Kew - Australia | Yes |