“Floating Jews”—The luftmentsh as an Economic Character
The Yiddish word “luftmentsh”, literally “air-person”, refers to petty traders, peddlers, beggars and paupers. The word appeared for the first time in Yiddish literature in the 1860s and began to be used by economists and statisticians in the 1880s-1890s. The case of the luftmentsh is particularly i...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Œconomia
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Œconomia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/12934 |