IT WAS ALWAYS difficult to classify Victor, the third Baron Rothschild, who was as rich in thents as' e was in family treasure. He was a distinguished scientist (elected FRS at the age of forty-three) ...

According to the Daily Herald, the ransom for Baron Rothschild was fixed at £2,000,000 ($10,000,000), as “compensation” for losses suffered in 1931 with collapse of the Kreditanstalt, giant ...

With a penchant for wild parties, a disastrous marriage and a messy divorce, Nat Rothschild seemed bent on self-destruction. But now, in a dramatic turn-around, he earns £40m a year and is set to ...

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Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is director of the Schulmann School of Basic Jewish Studies and professor of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. She is the author of, among ...