Glikl
Memoirs 1691-1719
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
Translated by Sara Friedman
375 pages
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17 halftones and 6 line drawin
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6 x 9
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© 2019
Review Quotes
Natalie Zemon Davis, author of Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives
“Glikl Hamel’s Memoirs open up the life of an early modern Jewish woman in Germany and France in fascinating detail—children, the ups and downs of family fortune, trade, prayer, story-telling, and more. Chava Turniansky has brought her immense Yiddish learning to this splendid edition and Sara Friedman‘s translation does justice to Glikl’s lively prose. Kudos for this gift to European history.”
Elisheva Carlebach, Columbia University
“One of the most riveting literary works of the seventeenth century, Glikl’s Memoirs is a unique human document that records Jewish history through the eyes of a learned, astute Jewish woman. This translation of Chava Turniansky’s magisterial edition is an occasion for celebration, as the complete edition has never before been available in its full glory in English.”
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