Die Memoiren der Glückel von Hameln 1645-1719

(GLÜCKEL OF HAMELN)

J. Kauffmann

Frankfurt am Main

1896

FIRST EDITION . Edited by David Kaufmann. Original Yiddish text with lengthy German introduction.

Although the original manuscript of Glückel von Hameln’s celebrated diary was lost soon after her death, a copy made by her grandson eventually found its way into the possession of David Kaufmann (1852-99), a prodigious scholar and manuscript collector (whose collection is presently housed in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest). Kaufmann was the first to publish this fascinating memoir, one of the few extant writings by a woman of the period, that provides a picture both of 17th-century German-Jewish society and of the inner world of a woman of her place and time.