The Rothschilds and the Birth of Modern Anti-Semitism

Last week, Jacob Rothschild, the fourth baron of Rothschild, died in London at the age of eighty-six. He began his career working for his famous family’s banking concern, and then set out on his own. Later in his life, he devoted his attention to philanthropy, supporting the arts in the UK and elsewhere as well as taking over his family’s Israel-based foundation, Yad Hanadiv, which funded the recently completed renovations to the National Library of Israel.