House of Rothschild, Volume 1
Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
Chapter One
"Our Blessed Father":
Origins
Yes, my dear fellow, it all amounts to this: in order to do something
you must be something. We think Dante great, but he
had a civilisation of centuries behind him; the House of Rothschild
is rich but it has required more than one generation to
attain such wealth. Such things all lie deeper than one thinks.
--GOETHE, OCTOBER 1828
A traveller arriving in eighteenth-century Frankfurt, as he passed across the
main Sachsenhauser Bridge leading to the Fahrtor Gate, could hardly miss the
Judensau--the Jews' Sow (see illustration 1.i). An obscene graffito on
the wall, it depicted a group of Jews abasing themselves before--or rather
beneath and behind--a fierce sow. While one of them suckled at her teats,
another (in rabbinical garb) held up her tail for the third (also a rabbi) to
drink her excrement. The " ... read full excerpt from: The House of Rothschild ebook
