Marchands ashkénazes et commerce international à Paris au XVIIIe siècle : Une relecture à l’aune des faillites marchandes

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Ashkenazi merchants and international trade in XVIIIth century-ParisThe historians of the Jews of Paris during the XVIIIth century have for many years been tempted to reproduce the designations used by the authorities, often disparaging for Ashkenazi Jews, assigning them to the “hardware trade” or “second-hand trade.” However, the study of new archives reveals that on the contrary, these merchants were integrated in vast international networks, participating in a new phenomenon, the emergence of consumption in Enlightenment Europe. They special ized in particular in the demi-luxe market between France and England. This was the case of Solomon Hyman, based in Paris and London, integrated in a dense Franco-English network, as revealed in the bankruptcy collection conserved at the Archives de Paris. This source, never before used for the history of Jews in Paris, allows us to engage in an economic history of Parisian Jews, in light of the “economic turn,” which has not been widespread in France.