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Título: FOUNDER: A PORTRAIT OF THE FIRST ROTHSCHILD AND HIS TIME
Autor: ELON, AMOS
Año: 2011
Género: BIOGRAFÍAS Y MEMORIAS
Formato: EPUB

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), patriarch of the Rothschild clan, fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a by-word for banking, fabulous wealth, and Jewish philanthropy. Israeli historian Amos Elon has pieced together the story of the dynasty's founding father, largely unrecorded heretofore.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild spent his life traveling between the Frankfurter Judengasse (the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt that existed from 1462 until 1811) and the mansions of the prosperous Gentiles whom he served, particularly that of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse (Hesse was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1567 to 1803). Jews were severely restricted in most areas of their lives, and Rothschild had to conduct himself with appropriate servility in the presence of his masters. However, the displacements of the Napoleonic Wars gave the discreet Rothschild his chance to act as Wilhelm's agent, and his monopoly on the disbursement of the prince's loans was his entry into banking. It was all the start he needed.

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