Coming from humble roots in the official ghetto for Jews in Frankfurt (now in Germany), the Rothschilds became a European ...

The Rothschilds first rose to prominence as a European banking family in the 1700s. The first Rothschild patriarch, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, grew up in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mayer Amschel Rothschild was the founder of the Rothschild family banking empire and that was the name given to him by his parents. He was born in London, England, on July 26, 1978, the youngest ...

And there is no doubt - the family pioneered international finance as we know it. This is the story of how the generations that started the dynasty managed such a feat. Mayer Amschel Rothschild ...

Mayer's father, Amschel Moses, worked as a money changer ... Niall Ferguson outlines the sheer scale of the Rothschild family's operations: "For most of the nineteenth century, N M Rothschild ...