TBA Book Club: The memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln

Discussthe nonfiction book, The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln, by Glückel,of Hameln; translatedwith notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Link+ has an edition published by SchockenBooks in 1977, which is 295 pages long. There are only 5 or 6 copies available;so hopefully, we’ll stagger our reading.  Link+:   https://csul.iii.com/search?/Xmemoirs+of+gluckel+of+&SORT=DZ/Xmemoirs+of+gluckel+of+&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=memoirs+of+gluckel+of+/1%2C4%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=Xmemoirs+of+gluckel+of+&SORT=DZ&1%2C1%2C 

Thebook is available on Kindle, and there are used copies for sale for under$6.00.

From Amazon:

Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewishwidow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial andpersonal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her ownfactory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rareaccount of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom shewrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to uswith 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 humanevents that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact wayof the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northernGermany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlesslypromotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document inthe history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.