"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this rea

"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this rea

Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies o

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