The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
by Gluckel of Hameln / Marvin Lowenthal (Translator)
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0805205721
- ISBN 13
- 9780805205725
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GLUCKEL of Hameln: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. New York, Schocken Books, 1989. Originally published in 1932. First Schocken Books Edition published in 1977. Translated with notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Softcover, 295 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Autobiography & Memoir / Women's Studies / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good. Very faint edge-wear to the lower extremities with light bumps to the lower corners. All pages unmarked and clean. "Begun in 1690, this diary...tells how she [Gluckel] guided the financial and personal destines of her children, how she engaged in trade...Her memoir, a rare account enlightens not just her children , for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of...all human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived....This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century. ISBN: 9780805205725
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- Title
- The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln
- Author
- Gluckel of Hameln / Marvin Lowenthal (Translator)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Schocken Books Edition: 1977 (Reprinted 1989)
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805205721
- ISBN 13
- 9780805205725
- Publisher
- Schocken Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 295
- Keywords
- Nonfiction / History / Autobiography & Memoir / Women's Studies / Jewish Studies
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- THE BROOKLYN BOOKMAN – USED, OUT OF PRINT, RARE & COLLECTIBLE BOOKS CATALOG; Great Works of History; Memoir / Autobiography / Biography; Women's Studies; Jewish Studies / Judaica;
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