Hendel Gompertz Kleve

In her diary, Hendel's sister, Glückel of Hameln, wrote of Hendel's engagement. "At that time my sister Hendele, of blessed memory, became engaged to the son of the learned Reb Gumpel of Cleves. She received 1800 Reichsthalers as her dowery, in those days, a handsome sum, more than anyone had ever been dowered in Hamburg."

Glückel goes on to say, (with a touch of sarcasm????) "Naturally, her match was considered the most important in all Germany and the whole world admired its excellence and the size of the dowery."