CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRADE ACTIVITY OF JEWS IN MACEDONIA IN XVIII AND XIX CENTURY Cover Image

ПРИЛОГ КОН ТРГОВСКАТА ДЕЈНОСТ НА ЕВРЕИТЕ ВО МАКЕДОНИЈА ВО XVIII–XIX ВЕК
CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRADE ACTIVITY OF JEWS IN MACEDONIA IN XVIII AND XIX CENTURY

Author(s): Vladimir Janev
Subject(s): Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, International relations/trade, 18th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Институт за национална историја
Keywords: trade; Jewish merchants; Macedonia; Salonika; consuls; Balkan Peninsula; Ottoman Empire

Summary/Abstract: The wide usage of different trade and legal forms in the trade activity of the Jews ensures the performance of trade deals and the increase of the acquired capital. The position that the Jews filled in the trade of the Balkan Peninsula to a great degree was due to the manner of organizing their trade. The Jewish merchants had completely arranged organization of trade. With their widespread branches, this organization was a trade network where the major merchants that lived in all the larger trade centers on the Balkan Peninsula were the main knot. The major merchants were a type of regulators of the entire trade, i. e. the exchange of the import and export goods was performed by them. The Jews traded with a large amount of different goods at the internal and external market. In order to successfully perform the trade activity, they had to know the consumer’s needs both of the external and the internal market. That was a close connection with the manufacturers of goods on one hand and an active stimulation of the production on the market on the other hand. In that way the Jews indirectly helped the development of the commodity – monetary relations in the Ottoman Empire.

  • Issue Year: 60/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 191-201
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Macedonian