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Gele bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
b. 1702
Gele was the daughter of the proselyte Moses ben Abraham, a printer from Nikolsburg (Mikulov, Moravia), and the sister of Elle. She worked at her father’s workshop as a typesetter and typeset the Hebrew and Yiddish translation of the book Tefilah le-Moshe (Prayer of Moses) in 1710, at the age of twelve. She added this poetic colophon at the end of the book.
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Colophon: Tefilah le-Moshe (Prayer of Moses)
All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…