Rothschild
Americannoun
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Lionel Nathan, Baron de Lord Natty, 1809–79, English banker: first Jewish member of Parliament (son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild).
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Mayer or Meyer Amschel or Anselm 1743–1812, German banker: founder of the Rothschild family and international banking firm.
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his son Nathan Meyer, Baron de, 1777–1836, English banker, born in Germany.
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Lionel Nathan , Baron de Rothschild. 1809–79, British banker and first Jewish member of Parliament
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his grandfather Meyer Amschel (ˈmaiər ˈamʃəl). 1743–1812, German financier and founder of the Rothschild banking firm
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his son, Nathan Meyer , Baron de Rothschild. 1777–1836, British banker, born in Germany
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Edmond de Rothschild did not live long enough to see the fulfillment of the Jewish prayers he and his family had long recited anticipating a Jewish return to Zion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Herzl found Rothschild paternalistic and overly timid, “a decent, good-natured, faint-hearted man, who utterly fails to understand the matter,” as he wrote in his diary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Rothschild, who had already spent years financing agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine, regarded Herzl as an energetic but naive dreamer ignorant of the difficult realities on the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
What Drumont could not have known was that what Rothschild was looking for would lead him to help found a nation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
This kept us in check until, as midnight approached, Peter held forth on how Lord Rothschild was avoiding his responsibility as a father by not inviting him to dinner with his daughter Sarah.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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