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May 19, 2020

The Story of the Russian Rothschilds

The Gunzburgs.

In the second half of the 19th century, as the majority of Russian Jews faced ever greater immiseration, some managed to benefit from rapid economic changes, and few even acquired fabulous wealth. The most famous to do so were members of the Gunzburg family, who played outsized roles in Russian-Jewish life until the Bolshevik revolution. Reviewing a recent book about the family, Josh Meyers writes:

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