Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild And His Time - Rilegato

Elon, Amos

 
9780670868575: Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild And His Time
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ISBN 10: 0670868574 ISBN 13: 9780670868575
Casa editrice: Viking, 1996

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Meyer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Frankfurt ghetto in the mid-eighteenth century, in a city more restrictive in its treatment of Jews than any in Europe. Elon brilliantly depicts Meyer Amschel Rothschild's position there, and life on the almost unimaginably cramped Judengasse (the single street of the ghetto), where he lived his whole life - even after becoming one of the richest men in Germany. We read how he established his small trading and banking business, and forged an uneasy relationship (though one mutually profitable in different ways) with the financially obsessed Crown Prince Wilhelm of Kassel; how he pushed at and eventually broke through the restrictions that bound him and his family to the ghetto until he found himself essentially paying for the English war effort in the Peninsula in 1810. On a richly delineated canvas the emergence and secularization of a family and Western European Jewry is depicted.
Founder is more than a short biography of an obviously extraordinary man. It is a portrait of Meyer Amschel Rothschild's times, of the condition of the Jews, of the state of Germany until it was overrun by the troops of Napoleonic France, which led to the collapse of the old order. It is about the threshold of modern times, when a world of aristocrats and gentlemen was permanently changed by a shrewd, dedicated, and loyal financier and his family. We still cannot know him as well as we do his children; but at last, in this book, Meyer Amschel Rothschild himself emerges from the shadows of the Judengasse.

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Book by Elon Amos

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Editore
Viking
Data di pubblicazione
1996
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0670868574
ISBN 13 
9780670868575
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
208
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780140256994: Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild And His Time

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ISBN 10:  0140256997 ISBN 13:  9780140256994
Casa editrice: Penguin, 1997
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