Glikl Regional government Noted children's author Jennifer Berne

Noted children's author Jennifer Berne shares these remarkablefactsandnumbers alongside vividinformativeillustrations by Dawn DeVries Sokol

Fifteen-year-old Istvan lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary

‘Totally gripping and a perfect page-turner’

Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

Glikl Regional government Noted children's author Jennifer BerneMy 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 reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people you come from. These words from the memoirs Glikl bas Leib wrote in Yiddish between 1691 and 1719 shed light on the life of a devout and worldly woman. Writing initially to seek solace in the long nights