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Margaret K. Nelson - Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers

Jewish Life in Small-Town Vermont

Av Margaret K. Nelson

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Provides a rare study of Jews in small town AmericaFor many years, histories of Jews in the United States focused on Jewish migrants who settled in large cities. Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers offers a rare study of Jews in small town America, illuminating the experiences of Jewish families in towns where they constituted one of, at most, a few Jewish families. In particular, the volume explores the occupational niches of Jews in rural Vermont, from peddling to the ownership of junk yards and dry goods stores that were disparagingly known as "the Jew Store."The book also looks specifically at the experiences of Jewish women and children in families headed by men in these occupations. These families lived in communities where they were often isolated from relatives and friends, and without a Jewish congregation. Margaret K. Nelson carefully investigates various aspects of this small-town experience, including how generations of immigrants were regarded by others, how they held onto the practice of their religion, and how they were able to socially integrate into their communities. By narrating the trajectory of Jewish immigrant experiences through men's occupations, the volume places the experiences of Jews in Vermont alongside those of other marginalized groups, particularly the families of Chinese restaurant owners and South Asian motel managers, as they established and sustained their own distinctive economic activities in small towns. Showcasing the largely unexplored history of Jews in very small towns, Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers provides a novel account of Jewish community and belonging as minorities in rural communities.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-28
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 399 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 264
  • Förlag: New York University Press
  • ISBN: 9781479842384
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Margaret K. Nelson is A. Barton Hepburn Professor Emerita of Sociology at Middlebury College. She is the author of many books, including Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship; Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household (with Emily K. Abel); and Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method (New York University Press).

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"Nelson's work is a revelation – and about far more than Jewish life in small-town Vermont. This work illuminates the work lives, family lives, religious experiences and gender arrangements of non-urban Jews everywhere. It speaks to the history of religious and ethnic minorities broadly, and to immigration and economic and social mobility in the 19th and 20th centuries. These are tales told with engagement and compassion, attentiveness and even love. This is a well researched and beautifully written study that scholars and teachers will use for years." - Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman's Life Is a Human Life "Peggy Nelson's Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk-Dealers is an insightful and painstakingly researched study of a Jewish American story we need to know better and a Vermont story that is hardly known at all. Nelson combines genealogy, sociology, and ethnography to create a lively portrait and a compelling narrative." - Michael Hoberman, author of Imagining Early Jews "Through its richly detailed account of specific people and local features, this vivid case study captures dynamics that played out in small towns across North America." - David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College "Sharply focused but broadly resonant, Peddlers, Merchants and Junk Dealers supersedes the common "pack-peddler to professional" narrative of rural Jewry, and offers the fine-grained insight of a sociologist into the complexities of this understudied sector of American Jewish life. It shows us sociology making history." - Robert S. Schine, author of Jewish Thought Adrift: Max Wiener 1882-1950

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