Bessarabian Business Directories

1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory
Jewish entries for Bessarabia and Portions of Transnistria Under Jurisdiction of the Bessarabia Special Interest Group was created and sent to JewishGen. The database includes 544 Jewish entries from 31 towns. Here are the introductory pages - PDF. The records will appear at the JewishGen at next JewishGen update. Thanks a lot to Jeff Wexler for managing the project and to a team of translators.

1901 Klychkin Bessarabia-Moldova Directory [HTML] [Excel]

Kamenka, Podolia Gubernia, 1913 Business Directory (updated Oct 2014)
[HTML] [Excel]
Additional Information from the business directory: Total population-6805 residence. Distance to Uezd (district) town of Olgopol is 75 verst (about 75 kilometer), and in 22 verst from RailRoad station: Kobylna. Town has own Post Office. 4 Jewish Prayer houses (synagogues). Jews held all business in town, except in wine production. The water milles where owned by non-Jews, but Jews rented them and processed 175,000 *16 kg of grain. Markets in this town were held on Mondays.

1940 Kishinev Business directory. (added March 2014)
1278 records were indexed. You can see them now at the Bessarabia SIG website, and soon they will be included into JewishGen databases. Records include Type of Business/Profession in Romanian and English. You will find dress makers, painters, lawyers, and also Chief Rabbi of Kishinev Yehuda Leib TSIRELSON. Project Leader: Harvey Kabaker, also translated byPaola Khalili, and Carol Shkolnik.

Two versions available: HTML, or XLS.

Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25
13,144 Jewish businesses in nine districts and the capital Chisinau (Kishinev):

----	Tighina (Bendery) district (html)	Tighina-district.xls	1220 records.
----	Khotin district (html)	Khotin-district.xls	2498 records.
----	Belti district (html)	Belti-district.xls	984 records.
----	Ismail district (html)	Ismail-district.xls	640 records.
----	Soroca district (html)	Soroca-district.xls	1988 records.
----	Orhei district (html)	Orhei-district.xls	1926 records.
----	Cetatea Alba district (html)	CetateaAlba-District.xls	1391 records.
----	Cahul district (html)	Cahul-District.xls	253 records.
----	Chisinau district (not including Chisinau) (html)	Chisinau-District.xls	575 records.
----	Chisinau town (html)	Chisinau-town.xls	1669 records.