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The Peddler's Ledger: From County Cork to Jerusalem
What does a Jewish peddler walking rural Ireland in 1905 have in common with a modern immigrant navigating Israeli bureaucracy? Everything, according to this episode. We trace the vikleman — the Yiddish term for a door-to-door peddler who was the original gig economy worker — through the story of one listener's family. From the pogroms of 1880s Lithuania to the dirt roads of County Limerick, from the Limerick riot of 1904 to a smartphone-wielding immigrant in Jerusalem, we explore how economic necessity created a role that kept repeating across generations. Along the way, we unpack the credit…
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