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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Diner, Hasia R. (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Roads taken [Texte imprimé] : the great Jewish migrations to the New World and the peddlers who forged the way / Hasia R. Diner
Publication : New Haven (Conn.) : Yale University Press, copyright [2015]
Description matérielle : xix, 247 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world's Jews emigrated
to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid
peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable story of
the Jewish men who put packs on their backs and traveled forth, house to house, farm
to farm, mining camp to mining camp, to sell their goods to peoples across the world.
Persistent and resourceful, these peddlers propelled a mass migration of Jewish families
out of central and eastern Europe, north Africa, and the Ottoman Empire to destinations
as far-flung as the United States, Great Britain, South Africa, and Latin America.
Hasia Diner tells the story of millions of discontented young Jewish men who sought
opportunity abroad, leaving parents, wives, and sweethearts behind. Wherever they
went, they learned unfamiliar languages and customs, endured loneliness, battled the
elements, and proffered goods from the metropolis to people of the hinterlands. In
the Irish Midlands, the Adirondacks of New York, the mining camps of New South Wales,
and so many other places, these traveling men brought change--to themselves and the
families who later followed, to the women whose homes and communities they entered,
and ultimately to the geography of Jewish history."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Juifs -- Conditions économiques -- Histoire
Colporteurs et colportage -- Histoire
Juifs -- Migrations -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
304.8 (23e éd.) = Mouvements de populations
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300178647. - ISBN 0300178646
EAN 9780300178647
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45706012t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45706012
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Road warriors: the migration and the peddlers ; Road runners: Jewish peddlers in
their new worlds ; Along the road: Jewish peddlers and their new-world customers
; Road rage: Jewish peddlers and the perils of the road ; The end of the road: life
after peddling ; Legacies of the road: a conclusion.
