Rothschilds

A family of European financiers and bankers active since the eighteenth century. The Rothschilds had spectacular success in governmental finance in the nineteenth century, supporting, for example, the British against the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The family is spread through several nations to this day.

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He was not born with that name and does not appear in the official genealogy maintained in the archive of the Rothschilds.

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The Rothschilds, a sprawling Jewish family originally from Frankfurt, Germany, long dominated European banking, with its English and French branches playing major roles in finance and politics, most notably during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Most accounts of the Rothschilds’ wealth trace its origins to a decision to finance the British military in the Napoleonic Wars.

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It was a dispute over who would direct “The Rothschilds” that ended the Bock-Harnick partnership.

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Yet their family narrative diverges in more important ways from those of Ashkenazi dynasties of finance and industry: the Rothschilds and the Reinachs, the Lehmans and the Guggenheims.

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