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The Goldschmidts
The Goldschmidts: A European Dynasty is the rich and colourful story of one among history?s most resilient breeds ? the Jewish banking dynasties of Frankfurt, the most important financial centre in Europe's ?Middle Kingdom?.A well-to-do ancestor of the Goldschmidts settled in the ghetto in the 1520s, and thereafter the family starred among the six richest Jewish clans ? outperforming the Rothschilds in this respect ? for the next three and a half centuries. Through five hundred years of war and peace, persecution and pestilence, the family produced some of Europe?s most successful financiers and bankers, as well as scientists, philanthropists, politicians, artists and novelists, entrepreneurs and eccentrics, striking out from their German base to take vigorous root in Austria, Belgium, France and Britain.Drawing on a wealth of source material, from both Europe and the United States, Anthony Allfrey brings to life, and up to date, the legacy of one of Europe?s most extraordinary families.
Man of Arms
Sinister, mysterious, credited with vast influence and great wealth... who was this man who evoked such fierce passions that he was branded the 'Merchant of Death', a man who had risen from obscure origins in Asia Minor to control a worldwide empire? His trade was arms, anything that fired, floated, submerged and - later - flew. His life spanned the muzzle-loading musket and the prototype Spitfire.
Two Nations
International scholars and specialists in Jewish, German, British and European history offer this first comparative approach to the study of German and British Jewish history from the late 18th century to the 1930s. The volume's comparative dimension goes beyond a parallel exploration of the Jewish experience in the two societies by examining British and German Jewries in equal measure and discussing a broad spectrum of social, political, cultural and economic issues.
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War
Jack Pease was at the heart of the British Liberal government from 1908 to 1915, holding the position of Chief Whip through two general elections, and a member of the Cabinet confronting domestic tumult, international tensions, and war. Pease was an unassuming participant in the deliberations of a unique gathering of political talent. His journals as President of the Board of Education from 1911 to the formation of the coalition ministry in 1915 are a closely observed, unvarnished record of what he saw and heard in Downing St and Westminster: constitutional and Home Rule crises, industrial conflict, electoral reform, women's suffrage controversies, struggles over budgets, naval estimates, an...
The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000
In Todd Endelman's spare and elegant narrative, the history of British Jewry in the modern period is characterized by a curious mixture of prominence and inconspicuousness. British Jews have been central to the unfolding of key political events of the modern period, especially the establishment of the State of Israel, but inconspicuous in shaping the character and outlook of modern Jewry. Their story, less dramatic perhaps than that of other Jewish communities, is no less deserving of this comprehensive and finely balanced analytical account. Even though Jews were never completely absent from Britain after the expulsion of 1290, it was not until the mid- seventeenth century that a permanent ...
