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Peddling, long an economic niche for European Jews became in the late eighteenth century a powerful engine which drove their migration around the globe. Young Jewish men, responding to both the decline of the traditional economies of their home communities and the opening up of a number of 'new worlds' took up their familiar occupation in broad range of places. They left eastern and central Europe...
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