Glückel of Hameln was a Jewish woman who was born in Hamberg in the year 1645. She is most notable for leaving behind her diaries to her many children, which she started to compose after the death of her first husband. Her writings contain everything from mundane matters to financial obligations, work dilemmas, public health issues, Anti-Semitism, local politics, travel, childbearing, Jewish spirituality and superstition. She died in the year 1724.