...This introductory chapter presents the story of how immigrant Jewish peddlers and the non-Jewish women made history through their ordinariness. The history of peddling has contributed to our understanding of Jewish modernity. This chapter reveals that immigrant Jewish peddling involved three...

...This chapter discusses new-world customers who traded with the Jewish peddlers. It shows that Jews and their customers influenced each other's lives despite differences in race, class, religion, language, and ethnicity. The peddlers offered attractive alternatives for their customers...

..., and musicologists were enthralled by what Victor Fournel called the “plaintive cry of Old Paris,” which stood for the resistance to modernity. In their nostalgic writings, these members of the elite circulated shared cultural memories of street cries that erased peddlers' associations with sedition and revolution...

...This chapter follows representations of peddlers from Baudelaire to François Coppée, Charles Cros, and Jean Richepin, and finally to symbolists such as Stéphane Mallarmé and Joris Karl Huysmans. It considers whether they perceived the city-as-concert as harmonious or dissonant by analyzing...

... marketplaces in cows Hamilton James Lancaster PA fair trade hucksters weights and measures Blackstone William engrossing forestalling justice of the peace peddlers regrating rum trade in Congarees SC Fort Augusta Seven Years’ War Shamokin Yamasee War Chester County PA Indian trade Africans...

... with street peddlers, informal waste recyclers, pirated stands selling CDs, DVDs and books, and a vast market in ‘shanzhai’ electronics. The informal economy spills out of the urban fringes, erupting as an uncontrolled and uncontrollable periphery within the urban core. If Shanghai...

...0 03 01 1991 Though military arrests of civilians increasingly brought Southern citizens into the infamous bastilles of the North, throughout the war some of the prisoners, of course, came from the North as well. Among the Northerners were businessmen, entrepreneurs, and peddlers who fell...

...0 28 01 1993 Prior to the emergence of a reliable national transportation system in the middle of the nineteenth century, book distribution fell largely to itinerant “hawkers and walkers.” These peddlers would set out with a cart and horse, their books sometimes exhibited in a square cabinet...

... Jewish family, which it relates to the families of other New York Jewish intellectuals. It explores the significance of his father’s beginnings as a peddler, his mother’s Zionism, and the time he spent in Palestine. Some light is shed on the mysteries surrounding his lack of formal education. Detailed...

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... of the Cris contrasted economic abundance with the disparities of the capital, old and new traditions, and the vibrancy of street commerce with an increasing bourgeois demand for quiet. In time, peddlers who provided the soundtrack for Paris's narrow streets yielded to modernity, with its taciturn...

... than demand equal access to housing, reinvestment activists fought for community control over local housing markets. Responding to real estate speculators, or “panic peddlers” who reaped huge profits in white-to black home sales, activists worked to “stabilize” neighborhood housing markets and take...

...This chapter discusses conflicts that Jewish peddlers encountered in the new world. It specifically addresses anti-Jewish incidents. Jewish peddlers experienced spurts of political agitation, physical violence, public mockery, and jealousy from local merchants. This problem was a result...

... itinerant trades to earn a living. As the Jewish population expanded, the opportunities for gaining a settlement and earning a living remained constant or even diminished. While some of the immigrants were able to find work as bankers and brokers, others became peddlers and pickpockets. immigrants Central...

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..., a combination of words and a characteristic tune, such that buyers could identify each peddler by a sound marker. The peddling sounds of the streets constituted shared memories that evoked childhood and fostered a sense of place for Parisians. A nostalgic longing for better days combined with the antiquarian's...

...: Berg, 1988 . Diner, Hasia R.   A Time for Gathering: The Second Migration, 1820–1880 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 . Diner, Hasia R . Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way . New...

... the construction of the National Road to connect the populous East Coast with the emerging trans-Appalachian West. It also discusses the success of Jewish peddlers and other marketing strategies the Jews employed during the time. canals for commerce Cumberland Maryland Jews American accusations of war...

... to serve as peddlers to their congregations, advertising and selling domestic consumer goods produced by northern white manufacturers and netting a small commission every time they sold a bolt of cloth, a pair of shoes, a stove, or an organ. Religious newspapers counseled readers on what to buy and where...

...David McConnell built the California Perfume Company to sell perfumes, toiletries, extracts, and household products through a system of direct house-to-house sales. To overcome the seedy reputation of itinerant peddlers, common at the turn of the twentieth century, McConnell relied on women. Door...