ABSTRACT In early Victorian times there was a notorious street market for old clothes located in the heart of East London’s Jewish quarter. Each day, the most disparate ensemble of rag traders came together here, including migrants from different origins and of different religions. What kind of contact did they establish with each other? To answer this question, it is important to note that the rag trade resembled more a bazaar economy than a market economy. The Old Clothes Market, or Rag Fair as it was popularly known, was a risky environment for business. Under these circumstances, the merchants preferred to trade with parties whom they knew by reputation or from personal experience. They built client relationships which regularly cut across ethnic and religious divides. These relations, in turn, tended to transcend a merely economic rationale. In other words, the risks and uncertainties of trading at the Old Clothes Market turned out to be an incentive for forming interreligious relationships.

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Rag Fair 的高风险业务。论早期维多利亚时代伦敦街头的宗教间关系

摘要 在维多利亚时代早期，东伦敦犹太区的中心有一个臭名昭著的旧衣服街头市场。每天，形形色色的破布商人聚集在这里，其中包括来自不同血统和不同宗教的移民。他们之间建立了什么样的联系？要回答这个问题，重要的是要注意破布贸易更像是集市经济而不是市场经济。旧衣服市场，或众所周知的 Rag Fair，是一个有风险的商业环境。在这种情况下，商人更愿意与他们通过声誉或个人经验认识的人进行交易。他们建立了经常跨越种族和宗教分歧的客户关系。反过来，这些关系往往超越了单纯的经济理由。