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Renaissance and the Early Modern Period
1719-1691 ... (Glikl, Memoirs 1691-1719). Ed. and trans, [into Hebrew] from the Yiddish by Chava Turniansky Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History and the Ben-Zion Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006. 113+642 pp. Indexes, bibliography, maps.
The memoirs of Glikl of Hameln (1645-1724), written in Yiddish between 1691 and 1719, were first published by David Kaufmann in 1896. Versions (although usually not full translations) were soon published in several languages, giving this book its deserved renown. Chava Turniansky has...