The Life Of Gluckel Of Hameln

<DIV><P><I>A fascinating memoir of one of Judaism’s earliest female writers, translated from the original Yiddish</I></P><P>Glückel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in 1689, she proceeded to write the riveting memoir that would become a timeless classic, revealing much about Jewish life in seventeenth-century Germany.</P><P>This volume also features an introduction by translator Beth-Zion Abrahams that provides a fuller background of the author''s life and tells how Glückel came to write the memoir that would provide insight for centuries to come into Jewish, European, and women’s history.</P><P>Glückel (1646–1724) was born to a prominent family in Hamburg, Germany. At the age of fourteen, she was married to a wealthy gems dealer in an arranged marriage and became his business and financial adviser while bearing and raising their twelve child