Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2022) 43-65
Keywords:
Jewish peddlers History 19th century
;
Jewish peddlers History 20th century
;
Secondhand trade History
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Jewish businesspeople History
Abstract:
The figure of “the peddler” is an important tool for analyzing a broad range of consumer-related activities in nineteenth-century Germany. Peddlers linked towns, villages, and the countryside. They dealt in a broad range of goods and combined different forms of payment. They also traded in used goods, a dimension often neglected in the analysis of modern consumer cultures. Uwe Spiekermann examines the long-term transition of peddling into both shop-based and itinerant trades, including the rag and scrap trade, all profoundly shaped by Jewish businesspeople. This development triggered manifold associations, stereotypes, and prejudices outside and inside the Jewish community, until the Nazi state prohibited Jews from peddling and second-hand trade in 1938.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-88960-9_2
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