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| | Glückel of Hameln -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Written in (A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script) Yiddish, her diaries were originally intended for her descendants. |
| | Other scholars point to the fact that they constitute an early document in Yiddish, predating the rise of modern (additional info and facts about Yiddish literature) Yiddish literature, while still others note that they were written by a woman, a rarity for Jewish texts from that period. |
| | Her diaries were left off in 1699, shortly before her second marriage, and resumed 1715–1719, after her second husband's death. |
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