Gluckel of Hameln
Gluckel of Hameln · Arts & Literature
German-Jewish businesswoman and memoirist whose Yiddish diary is a landmark record of early-modern Jewish life.
1646, Hamburg, Germany — 1724, Metz, France
Hamburg · Metz
Gluckel of Hameln is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — German-Jewish businesswoman and memoirist whose Yiddish diary is a landmark record of early-modern Jewish life.
Glückel of Hameln was a German-Jewish businesswoman who ran her late husband's trading enterprise and raised a large family. Written in Yiddish between 1691 and 1719, her memoir is one of the earliest known autobiographies by a Jewish woman and a landmark record of everyday Ashkenazi Jewish life in early-modern Europe. She was a religiously observant Jew.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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German-Jewish businesswoman and memoirist whose Yiddish diary is a landmark record of early-modern Jewish life.
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
