Yiddish Book Club

The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln


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Direct Download the Podcast Episode Memoirs by pre-19th century women are exceedingly rare. This memoir by a late 17th to early18th-century Jewish business woman is completely unique. Gluckel’s financial dealings, her piety and personal conduct, and the family and community events she describes bring us into a world we rarely glimpse. She uses Jewish folk […]
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Yiddish Book ClubBy Michael Wex, Faith Jones, Shane Baker, Eric Klein