Letter to Her Daughter

Reisel Landau

1619

If we should lack nothing else than veils, it would be all right.

May peace and healthy days be your lot always; to you, my much beloved daughter, may you live long, you who are pious and virtuous, lady Hannah, may she live, and to all who are dear to you.

First of all, you may know of our health, may I hear the same from you always. Further, my…

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Reisel Landau

17th Century

Reisel (Resel) Landau was among the Prague-based correspondents who sent letters to Jews in Vienna, part of a dispatch that left Prague on November 22, 1619, never to reach its destination. Little else is known of her life. Reisel’s letter to her daughter Hannah is one of a few in the batch that directly reflects the worsening political and security situation that probably led to confiscation of the letters, during the early months of what came to be known as the Thirty Years’ War.

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