38 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, April 8, 1960 — House of Rothschild Illarks Its 200th Anniversary By ERWIN FETTERS (Standard Feature Syndicate) The Rothschilds, famous fam- ily of bankers and businessmen, derive their name from the sign of a red shield on house No. 143 in the Judengasse ("Jew Street") in Frankfort-on-the- Main. The , old, unpretentious building, completely restored in 1886, is still in the possession of the Rothschilds, serving as a 11, Passover Good Cheer EPPIE'S SHELL SERVICE "Not Just a Filling Station" Complete Auto Service • Road Service 12745 Dexter WE 5-9497 c i50000000000000000000a, kind of family museum and memorial. The earliest notice of a mem ber of the Rothschild family given in the burial records of Frankfort, is that of Moses Rothschild (1515). The first Rothschild of any prominence was Amschel Moses, a small merchant and money- changer in Frankfort; his son, Mayer Amschel, who in 1760 started his banking business and became financial adviser to several German princes, was a dealer in antique coins. By keen foresight and financial in- tegrity, he laid the foundation for what was to become the most famous banking firm in E u r ope. The five brothers (nicknamed "the Five Franks") dispersed. The youngest, James, Holiday Best Wishes 4-HOUR LAUNDRY 2501 Woodward, of Henry WO 1-8269 Holiday Greetings Maurice Garelik Plumbing • Heating Paint Supplies 7720 FENKELL UN 3-1333 Passover Greetings HARRY C. HAYES Prescriptionist—Curtis Bldg. W. Grand Blvd. at Hamilton TR 1-3464 Passover Greetings INDUSTRIAL BAG & SPECIALTIES Soliciting All Kinds of Industrial Sewing 1025 BRUSH STREET WO 2-6928 Passover Greetings JONES IRON & METAL CO. 4141 Wyoming, in Dearborn TI 6-3000 TrtrifICTMICIS-015116-0-6111515- k. James de Rothschild settling in Paris, founded the banking firm of Rothschild Freres in 1817. In the Napoleonic wars, the Rothschilds generously sup- ported the cause of the Allies against Napoleon. They opened banking branches in Austria, France and England, and the next genera- tion was in a position to loan important sums to emperors, kings and nobility, doing so at the moderate rate of 5%. From 1817 on, the brothers Roths- child, in their collective capa- city, were reported to be Eur- ope's richest bankers., The Vienna branch financed The Old Rothschild Frankfort Stammhaus the construction of the first rail- road, the North Railway, and bought Austria's rich quick- silver mines. They loaned mil- lions of gulden to the impover- ished Austrian nobility, financed railroads in many other coun- tries, made substantial loans and wrote out insurance poli- cies. The sound business prin- ciple on which the Rothchilds acted was the unified policy of the five, later four and finally three firms in London, Paris and Austria. In whatever coun- tries they settled, the Roths- childs were ardent patriots in their respective lands. The English Rothchilds, for instance, headed by Lionel, who was the first Jew to have a seat in the British House of Com- mons, financed in 1858 the Eng- lish purchase of the Suez Canal. Previously, Lionel had granted a loan of $48,000,000 to finance the Crimean War; in 1847, he Baron Edmon de Rothschild, also financed the "Irish Famine 'Father of the Yishuv' Loan." During the next hundred French Council of State of lib- years, the Rothschilds were also erated Fr an ce, returned to generous philanthropists and Baron Rothschild his citizen- ship and all his vast possessions and art treasures confiscated by Vichy in 1940 on the charge of "flight from his native land." But the damage was done, and millions were lost. 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CLARKE Plc-72" TR 4-9864 15-0- 15- 0-0151111111515- 611111F-615--01n$ Holiday Best Wishes Holiday Greetings "We Grow Our "The Father of the Yishuv" (1845-1937) in 1882 founded four Jewish colonies and gave generous assistance to the "Homeland" through the Pal- estine Jewish Colonization Asso- ciation (Pica). True to his slo- gan "Everything for Palestine," his donations totaled 70,000,000 in gold francs.. Faithfully following in his father's footsteps, his son, James, who died in England in May 1957, out of his fortune of $33,500,000, bequeathed $3,- 300,000 assets gained from the liquidation of the Pica, towards the erection of a new Knesset ( Israel's Parliament) building. The cornerstone was laid in Oc- tober 1958 in the Kirya on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. 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