Gluumlckel of Hameln's memoir is widely viewed as one of the earliest major works written by a Jewish woman and has become a classic. Gluumlckel's aim, she writes at the beginning of her memoir, was to while away the long and melancholy nights that tormented her after her husband's death, and to inf[...]

Gluckel 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 [...]