A BRIEF OVERVIEW ON CRAIOVA BUSINESSES IN THE FIRST THREE DECADES OF THE XXTH CENTURY. LESS KNOWN FOREIGN MERCHANTS

In this study I present a few commercial units owned by Jews and other foreigners, and those units in which they had legal status as counterpart or associate and how they developed their activity in Craiova, in the first three decades of the XXth century, the chronologic upper line being the world economic crisis (1929–1933). For this purpose I used the information found in archive funds as well as those published in the Official Monitor in the above mentioned period. My object is to identify less popular merchants, reason for I left out those who stood out in the history as a significant presence in the social-economic dynamic of town: Samitca, Benvenusti, Eschenasy, Mendel, Baruch, Nachmanson, etc.