Csendes_Tunde_A_gabonakereskedelem_Gyorben

This study traces the increasing importance of the Jews of Győr and Győrsziget in the town’s grain trade. Using archival sources and contemporary press, the article explores how the city’s flourishing grain trade and milling industry was built by entrepreneurial Jewish merchants, and analyses their activities in comparison with those of the grain trade in the city of Pest. The study also sheds light on the circumstances that brought about the need to change the economic profile of Győr at the end of the nineteenth century, and the prospects these wealthy Jewish merchants of Győr sought out to secure their future.