Clujul de dincolo de neguri. Trei drame clujene
Cluj beyond the clouds. Three dramas from Cluj.

Summary/Abstract: We are used to imagining Cluj in the interwar period as a place and a time of the golden age. Researching the interwar banking environment in Cluj, the picture is a much more complex one. Banks faced a lot of crises throughout the period. Scientific studies focus mainly on institutions, on their interference with the politica! life and less on the lives of bankers. ln addition to the multiple crises that affected the professional lives of bank officials, there were alsa other kinds of events, many of them dramatic. From the multiple biographies that I studied, I stopped at three. These are three dramas, those of Virgil Bontescu, director of the Central Bank for lndustry and Commerce, Lichtman Aladar from the Small Credit Bank and that of Vasile Burtică from the Discount and Exchange Bank in Transylvania. Their biographies, as I have extracted from the press of that time or from some official documents, present us another face of Cluj, a tragic but alsa a human face. We see the world of the interwar city in severa! poses that show us passion, jealousy, Iove or hate, envy and friendship, wealth and poverty, fear and happiness, healing and illness, in other words, tragic but equally human destinies.

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