Glikl is from the Yiddish-Germanic glik (luck, happiness). **Glikl of Hameln (1646-1724)** was the German-Jewish businesswoman and **author of one of the first known autobiographies by a Jewish woman** — written in Yiddish for her children after her first husband's death. A vivid account of 17th-century Jewish life, business, and motherhood.
Translated into many languages; Yiddish literary milestone.
Glikl reduces to eight — the number of Yiddish memoirist.