Bijutieri și ceasornicari evrei din București
Jewish Jewelers and Watchmakers of Bucharest

Summary/Abstract: Sketching thin lines of the history of modern jewelry in Romania, this study focuses on the three main places where watches and jewelry shops resided. As the craftsmanship lives its emancipation, its center moves to Bucharest, where craftsmen and sellers will describe their audience and their products first by their position in the geography of the city: Victoriei Avenue holds the luxury shops, Carol street is the center of all watch sellers and famous Jewish neighbourhood streets cater to the emerging middle class and the simple people leaving in the capital. The study also provides a closer look on the most famous Jewish watch and jewelry craftsmen and sellers of Bucharest in the first decades of the XX century: Ignatz Roller and Heinrich Weiss.

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