Volume 44, Number 1 · January 9, 1997
Prophets
By Gordon A. Craig
From Court Jews to the Rothschilds: Art, Patronage, and Power, 1600-1800 1996-January 19, 1997.
An exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, September 8,. Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Vivian B. Mann, edited by Richard I. Cohen
The Jewish Museum/Prestel, 252 pp., $40.00 (paper)
Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild and His Time
by Amos Elon
Viking, 208 pp., $24.95
In March 1841, commenting on his acquaintance with the Paris banker James Rothschild, Heinrich Heine wrote that he liked to visit him in the office of his countinghouse, because it afforded the best view of the exaggerated forms of respect that his person elicited from his visitors, 'a wriggling and twisting of the backbone that would be difficult for even the best of acrobats.' Heine wrote:
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