Glückel of Hameln, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Glückel of Hameln

German writer and businesswoman

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1646

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1724

Profession: writer, businessperson, entrepreneur, merchant, memoirist, autobiographer, diarist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Glückel of Hameln

  • Glückel of Hameln (Yiddish: ????? ?? ?' ????? ???? ???????; also spelled Glückel, Glüeckel, or Glikl of Hamelin; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib) (c.?1646 – September 19, 1724) was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist.
  • Written in her native tongue of Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants.
  • Glückel's diaries are the only known pre-modern Yiddish memoirs written by a woman.
  • The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln provide an intimate portrait of German-Jewish life in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries and have become an important source for historians, philologists, sociologists, literary critics, and linguists.

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