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Abigail Green: The Rothschilds, 18 February 2021
Rothschild: Glanz und Untergang des Wiener Welthauses
by Roman Sandgruber.
Molden Verlag, 531 pp., £29, October 2018,978 3 222 15024 1 Show More
by Roman Sandgruber.
Molden Verlag, 531 pp., £29, October 2018,
The Gunzburgs: A Family Biography
by Lorraine de Meaux, translated by Steven Rendall.
Halban, 484 pp., £25, October 2019,978 1 905559 99 2 Show More
by Lorraine de Meaux, translated by Steven Rendall.
Halban, 484 pp., £25, October 2019,
A Jewish Woman of Distinction: The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
by ChaeRan Y. Freeze, translated by Gregory L. Freeze.
Brandeis, 397 pp., £23, February 2020,978 1 68458 001 9 Show More
by ChaeRan Y. Freeze, translated by Gregory L. Freeze.
Brandeis, 397 pp., £23, February 2020,
Kings of Shanghai: Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China
by Jonathan Kaufman.
Little Brown, 384 pp., £20, November 2020,978 1 4087 1004 3 Show More
by Jonathan Kaufman.
Little Brown, 384 pp., £20, November 2020,
“... is hardly a neutral word in this context, though the authors of four different books – Roman Sandgruber’s about the Viennese Rothschilds, Lorraine de Meaux’s about the Gunzburgs, ChaeRan Freeze’s on Zinaida Poliakova, and Jonathan Kaufman’s about the Sassoons and Kadoories – all use it. It plays to Old Testament stereotypes and fails ... ”
