Peddlers, Merchants, and Junk Dealers
Jewish Life in Small-Town Vermont
$82.92
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2026
Summary
Provides a rare study of Jews in small town America
For 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 p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479842384 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479842389 |
| Author: | Margaret K. Nelson |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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“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
About The Author
Margaret K. Nelson
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.
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