Bencsik János: Kapitalizálódó gazdaság, polgárosodó társadalom (Officina Musei 13. Miskolc, 2003)

THE COMMUNITY OF TOKAJ (1869)

the region - in the first place the members of the Vay family in Galop - and wealthy Jewish families. In the town a public bath with warm-cold water was built to satisfy the demands of the citizens. An entertaining park - at the left side of the rivers - was cultivated, too. The road constructions gave the possibility of opening small quarries. Small and medium enterprise appeared. The stratum of carters increased because of the transport of stones. The amount of quarries also grew considerably. The spreading of bourgeois habits also goes together with the expansion of the Jewish population.