- Chinese Jews
- THE JEWISH ROTTING OF CHINA
- CHINESE COMMUNISM?
- Stalin was also a Zionist. He was the son of Baron Edmond de Rothschild and the brother of Chairman Mao
- Israel Epstein was one of the few foreign-born Chinese citizens of non-Chinese origin to become a member of the Communist Party of China.
- Sidney Shapiro, an American Jew, was a high ranking member of Communist Red China’s government.
Globalist Jews Created And Run Communist China
Postby HP Mageson666 » Tue Sep 19, 2017
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The Communist Party in China was created by the Jewish Communist International in a meeting in Shang Hi between Jews from Russia and Chinese Jews:
Voitinsky was sent over to China by the Comintern chairman, a Jew named Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky Apfelbaum., also known as Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev.
[Zinoviev was the long-time head of the Communist International and was a stooge of Jew Lenin. During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his sidekick Kamenev, and Joseph Stalin [my note Stalin was Jewish] formed a ruling 'triumvirate' (or 'troika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of Leon Trotsky.]
Chen decided to run a special edition on Marxism . The edition of this magazine was the most detailed analysis of Marxism then published in China, and achieved wide readership due to the journal's popularity.
In 1921, Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and other prominent revolutionary leaders founded the Communist Party of China. Chen Duxiu, was the dean of Peking University. Chen had participated in the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China
How did so many white Jews land up in Shanghai and then later in Hong Kong ? [To aid Communist take over]
Well he was a Chinese Jew first educated at Yali School in the provincial capital of Changsha and later Rothschild run Yale-in-China University. Later he was sent on a Jewish scholarship to Munich University in 1926 where he received his Ph.D. in political economics in 1932, and a crash course in Marxism.
Dr. Ho Feng-Shan, was planted [By Rothschild] as the Chinese consul-general in Vienna from May 1938 to May 1940. When Jews wanted a safe sanctuary before and during the Second World War, our Jew Dr Ho issued visas to white Jews left, right and centre— more than 21000 visas.. [My note this was to be able to ship as many Jews into China from the West to spread Jewish Communism as possible.]
1949: On October 1, Mao Tse Tsung declares the founding of the People's Republic Of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. He is funded by Rothschild created Communism in Russia and also the following Rothschild agents: Solomon Adler, a former United States Treasury official who was a Soviet Spy; Israel Epstein, the son of a Jewish Bolshevik imprisoned by the Tsar in Russia for trying to forment a revolution there; and Frank Coe, a leading official of the Rothschild owned IMF.
Mao would genocide 70 million innocent Chinese people under his rule mainly to destroy traditional Chinese culture. Like with Christianity any practioners of spiritual systems where outlawed, killed and put into gulags which was a slow death. And Communistic systems where the new culture of control. With China under their flag Tibet was next on the list as being the last bastion of spiritual knowledge and histories of humanity. All the Jewish systems seek to remove spiritual knowledge from Gentiles and keep it in the hands of the Jewish elite. This is a major part of their domestication program:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JoSNewsletter/message/170
A century and more before the Rothschild's and the Solomon Brothers used their control of England and its control of India to run the Opium trade into China killing tens of thousands and wrecking entire communities to the point the Chinese fought the Opium wars to try and throw the Jewish dealers out.
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Chinese Jews:
"A Jesuit missionary, going upon some occasion into the province of Honan, found a considerable Synagogue in the city of Kaifengfu. He soon became acquainted with some of its learned chiefs, who introduced him into their Synagogue and showed him one of the Parchments or rolls of the Pentateuch written in Hebrew, together with the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, some of the prophets, and others containing their liturgy and commentaries they owned. They had lost some of the sacred books and some of their targums or paraphrases. This loss was caused by a violent overflowing of the great river, which had laid the capital wholly under the water and had damaged their Torah, or roll of the Pentateuch, and upon which they ordered twelve new copies to be taken from it.....
My elder brother -- I am not yet forty years old, but I have thought and talked much with my friends about our ancestors, who were rich and numerous and who worshiped in a fine synagogue, built on the land presented to them bv the Emperor Tai-tsti. This synagogue, you know, has been swept away by 'China's Sorrow' [the Yellow River]. Our ancestors came to this land from the northwest nearly three thousand years ago...."
From
OL. XVIII, No. 10, ASHINGTON, OCTOBER, I907. National Geographic:
HE CHINESE JEWS
By, Oliver Bainbridge
CHINESE COMMUNISM?
YES, but it was JEWISH when it started. [My note it still is].
The following article by Arnold Leese is reprinted from Gothic Ripples, No. 49, dated 28th February, 1949. It shows that the seeds of Bolshevism were planted in China by Jews, who also tended and trained the growth that resulted. The corruption of the regime of Chiang Kai‑Shek caused many of the masses in China to turn to Communism for relief, since Chinese Communism is mixed with Nationalism and discourages the old Chinese curse of official corruption; but Communism in China has the same dehumanising effect on the people as it has elsewhere.
THE JEWISH ROTTING OF CHINA.
It was the Sassoon family which turned the normal Chinese dislike and distrust of foreigners into hatred. David Sassoon made the Opium Trade in China from 1832 until he died in 1864. His family carried on the Trade under our Flag and made huge fortunes. The British took the blame, and now the Chinese loathe us; just as we took the blame for the Jewish atrocities at Nuremberg, Spandau and elsewhere in Germany, so that the Germans now hate us.
Backed by the Sassoons, the Shanghai Opium Monopoly existed until 1917 under the Jew Edward Ezra, its Managing Committee being composed entirely of Jews and Indians. Not only did the British Flag protect the Sassoons in this abominable trade which the Manchus did all they could to prevent, even to the extent of war, but also these Jews were welcomed in England instead of being ostracised. Royalty petted them and they intermarried with Aryan aristocrats. Some became Baronets and one a Minister of the Government.
When the Freemason [Jewish Rothschild's front], Sun Yat‑Sen, began his revolutionary movement at Canton, the Jew Morris Cohen, a British subject, became his aide‑de‑camp and was sent by Sun around the globe to get military experts for his revolutionary army. On Sun Yat‑Sen's death bed this Jew was commended to Chiang Kai‑Shek and he was employed as liaison officer between the Canton Government and all foreign Consulates‑General. Cohen became known in China as Moi‑Sha, and was made Military Counsellor to the Cantonese Forces, and a General, although still a British subject.
As late as 1939, Cohen was travelling the high seas under the protection of our Flag. The last we heard of him was late in 1945 when he emerged from a Japanese prisoner‑of‑war camp. The South African Sunday Express described him as "the guiding genius behind the War‑Lords of China".
The Soviet Jew, Jacob Borodin (real name M. Grusenberg) was sent by the Kremlin with the Jew Joffe, in 1923, to try and bolshevise Sun Yat‑Sen and became Chief Political Adviser to the Kuomintang. His wife, a Jewess, spied in China for the Soviets. When Sun died, Borodin was left in charge and it was he who appointed Chiang Kai‑Shek to succeed Sun in 1926. However, in 1927 a raid was made by Chang Tso‑Ling on the Soviet Embassy at Pekin, which revealed the scope and extent of the Soviet plot to bolshevise China, and the Borodins were arrested and imprisoned.
In 1923 the notorious Jew, Trebitsch Lincoln, ex‑M.P. in Britain, headed a Chinese mission to get arms for Wu Pei Fu, a War‑Lord with a fine character, but failed, probably purposely, in the attempt. After that, Lincoln drifted about, too mistrusted in China for any other important role.
The Soviet General, B. K. Galen, who was really a Jew called Chesin, and was nicknamed Blucher, accompanied the "Armenian" Soviet Delegate Karachan to Pekin in 1924 where a treaty was made with Chang Tso‑Ling by which the Chinese Eastern Railway was handed over to the Soviets. This placed the movement of troops at the mercy of the Bolsheviks. The intrigues and bribery by which this surrender by Chang Tso‑Ling was obtained were carried out through the medium of a Jewish timber magnate called S. Skidelski. At once, the Railway was placed in charge of the Jews Gekker, Koslowsky and Snamensky (Zamyensky). To continue with the career of General "Galen", he became Chief Military Adviser to Chiang Kai‑Shek in1926.
Now for the Soviet Jew S. A. Gekker: As early as 1922; he has been Military Adviser to the Mongolian Bolshevik Government, and in 1924 he was made Head Political Commissar on the Chinese Eastern Railway aforesaid. This appointment was at the hands of the Jew, M. D. Lashewitz, who was President of the Board of Railway Control in Moscow.
Nor must the Jew, A. Joffe, be forgotten. We have already met him as head of the Soviet Mission to Sun Yat‑Sen, when, with the Jew, Jacob Borodin, he tried to develop Sovietism. Later he became Political Adviser to Chiang Kai‑Shek in 1926 and organised the Red Section of the Kuomintang.
High up in the Political Department of the Red Army in China were also the two Jews, W. N. Levitschev and J. B. Gamarnik, who in 1936 was its head.
The Nanking Ministry of Finance has always been dominated by Jews, viz: Kann, L. Rajchman and R. Haas. In England, the Jew Billmeir helped, with his merchant fleet, to take Soviet arms to China in 1938.
Finally, the Jew Ben Kizer (U.S.A.) was appointed head of Unrra in China, and as everyone knows, it fell to pieces in corruption.
Enough has been said to prove that every real key‑position in the process of the Bolshevik destruction of China has been Jewish.
ARNOLD LEESE.
Published by Arnold Leese, 20, Pewley Hill, Guildford, Surrey.
David Rockefeller and high ranking Chinese Communist leader Zhou Enlai in 1973
Mao in a high-level meeting with several Jews [Frank Coe, Israel Epstein, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmely, and Solomon Adler] Coe was one of the Jew responsible for the Great Leap Foreword the engineered famine which killed forty million people.
[Coe participated in Mao's Great Leap Forward, a mighty plan for the rapid industrialization and modernization of China. Mao assigned him to his Chinese economic think tank, the Institute of World Economics, where they provided advice on international trade and global macroeconomic conditions.]
Coe really got around note Coe can also be a short former of Cohen:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Coe
Virginius Frank Coe (1907–June 2, 1980) was a United States government official who was identified by Soviet defectors Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers as being an underground member of the Communist Party[1] and as belonging to the Soviet spy group known as the Silvermaster ring.
On July 1, 1946, Coe became the first Secretary of the Rothschild controlled International Monetary Fund.
Coe, who was also a Jewish Communist agent, was a member of the infamous Silvermaster spy Cell.
Just who is Solomon Adler:
Solomon Adler (August 6, 1909 — August 4, 1994) was an economist who worked in the U. S. Treasury Department, serving as Rothschild’s Treasury representative in China from 1941 to 1938., which included the World War II.
He returned to China in the 1950s and was a resident there from the 1960s until his death, working as a translator, economic advisor, and possibly with the Central External Liaison Department, a Chinese intelligence agency.
Adler shared a house with Chi Ch’ao ting(Ji Chaoding) Chinese Ministry of Finance official. and John Service. In 1944, John Service was Second Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, China.
Solomon Adler as a Treasury official in Chungking who was also a member of an NKVD espionage ring known as the Silvermaster group.
Adler reported from China to Treasury Secretary Jew Henry Morgenthau, Jr. during the war years -- while serving as Treasury attaché in China in 1944.
Jew Henry Morgenthau, Jr. was Rothschild’s hatchet man in USA as he U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of US president Jew Franklin D. Roosevelt. And later became Later Jew Henry Morgenthau, Jr. became a financial advisor to Israel.
Sidney Shapiro, an American Jew, was a high ranking member of Communist Red China’s government.
Israel Epstein, Mao Tse Tung’s ministers, shown here being honored for his service by current Chinese communist leader, Chairman Hu Jin Tao.
Israel Epstein, is a naturalized Chinese citizen , and a member of the Communist party of China , he is the Jew responsible for the Cultural revolution which exterminated Chinese culture and killed up to five million innocent people. He wrote Mao’s little book. Which was the premise on which the Cultural Revolution was designed to be waged on the Chinese population
Israel Epstein, second from right in front, standing in front of Mao. He later became of his ministers of state, an extremely powerful position. To the right of him is another Jew, also under cover as a journalist.
Sidney Shapiro, Israel Epstein and Chen Bidi getting a birthday party thrown by the politburo
Jews were behind the rise to power of Mao Tse Tung, the communist dictator of China, who tortured and murdered tens of millions of Chinese during his brutal reign.
Sidney Shapiro, an American Jew, was in charge of China’s propaganda organ. Another Jew, Israel Epstein, was Mao’s Minister of Appropriations (Finance). [2012 Book] 9/11–Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Edward Hendrie
'Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history'.– David Rockefeller[my note the Rockfeller's are Jewish and part of the Rothschild blood line]
"Stalin was also a Zionist. He was the son of Baron Edmond de Rothschild and the brother of Chairman Mao."---New Zealand A Blackmailer's Guide by Greg Hallett
The covert Jewish control of Mao and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) explains why convicted Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard, found guilty of stealing thousands of classified documents from the Defense Department where he worked, gave these materials to his masters, the Israeli Mossad operating in the U.S.A. The Israelis, in turn, transferred these valuable military secrets straight to Red Chinese dictators in Beijing. Pollard, a Jew born in Galveston, Texas, sits in a federal prison today. Recently, when Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu came to America, he visited Pollard in prison and assured the despicable turncoat Israeli spy that the Israeli government was working behind-the-scenes with Obama’s White House to pardon the convicted spy. Meanwhile, Pollard is a national hero in Israel—honored for stealing America’s most precious military secrets which Israel gave to Communist China!----[2012 Book] 9/11–Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Edward Hendrie
The internationalists Jews also worked the other side to bring their Communist forces to victory:
Gun Control The key date here is 1948. Secretary of State and Rockefeller minion General George Marshall intervened on no less than three occasions when Chiang's Nationalist forces were on the verge of defeating Mao's Communist forces by imposing a Cease-Fire. On each occasion, the Cease-Fire bought Mao much needed time to regroup and re-arm courtesy of the u.s. General Marshall ordered all shipments of arms to Chiang STOPPED. For years, Chiang was the poster boy for u.s. intervention in the Sino-Japanese War. Now Chiang's usefulness was at an end and he was double-crossed and Mao was put in power on mainland China. Mao wound up murdering over eighty million of his countrymen. Collectivization led to the starvation of millions of Chinese. Some of Chiang's forces fled to the Shan States of Burma (Myanmar) and this led directly to the bogus "War on Drugs" and the Vietnam War. James Bartley
Jews also held high ranking positions in Mao's Communist Army and given worshipful titles:
Jewish doctor turned 'Buddha savior' under Mao
Odyssey of young Jewish doctor who became a general under Mao Zedong after fleeing Nazis [Nazi's halting Jewish Communism in Europe they he ran to spread it in the Far East, just changed theatres of operation for the tribe] is focus of new exhibition in Vienna
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 50,00.html
Jakob Rosenfeld, a Viennese physician turned hero of the Chinese revolution, is less well-known than Norman Bethune, a Canadian doctor whose services during the Sino-Japanese war inspired Mao to write an essay that he later made compulsory reading for his People's Republic.
But the Jewish doctor - or General Luo as he was known in China - was the only one of a handful of foreign volunteers to make it into the upper echelons of the revolutionary army.
"He was even named health minister in the Communist army's provisional government in 1947," Gerd Kaminski, an Austrian expert on Chinese history and the organizer of this new exhibit at Vienna's Jewish Museum, told AFP.
The show is part of a series of events hosted by Austria marking the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Beijing in 1971.
"Today, he has a statue, a hospital and Beijing's National Museum of China set up an 800-square-metre (8,600 square feet) exhibit in his honor inaugurated by President Hu Jintao," Kaminski noted.
The exhibit on Jakob Rosenfeld at Vienna's Jewish Museum will run until January 14.
https://www.ancient-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18
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Israel Epstein | |||
|---|---|---|---|
_MENAHEM_BEGIN_IN_POLISH_ARMY_UNIFORM_OF_GEN._ANDERS_FORCES_WITH_WIFE_ALIZA_AND_DAVID_YUTAN._(TOP)_MOSHE_STEIN_AND_ISRAEL_EPSTEIN._(JABOTINSKYD98-131_(cropped).jpg) Israel Epstein on December 12, 1942 | |||
| Members of the Standing Committee of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | |||
| In office June 1983 – 26 May 2005 | |||
| Personal details | |||
| Born | April 20, 1915 Warsaw, Poland | ||
| Died | May 26, 2005 (aged 90) Beijing, China | ||
| Political party | Communist Party of China | ||
| Occupation | Journalist, author | ||
| Chinese name | |||
| Traditional Chinese | 伊斯雷爾·愛潑斯坦 | ||
| Simplified Chinese | 伊斯雷尔·爱泼斯坦 | ||
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| Russian name | |||
| Russian | Израиль Эпштейн | ||
| Romanization | Izrail’ Èpštejn | ||
Israel Epstein (20 April 1915 – 26 May 2005) was a Polish-born Chinese journalist and author. He was one of the few foreign-born Chinese citizens of non-Chinese origin to become a member of the Communist Party of China.
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Early life and education[edit]
Israel Epstein was born on 20 April 1915 in Warsaw to Jewish parents;[1] at the time, Warsaw was under Imperial Russian control (now the capital of Poland). His father had been imprisoned by the authorities of czarist Russia for leading a labor uprising and his mother had been exiled to Siberia. Epstein's father was sent by his company to Japan after the outbreak of the World War I; when the German Army approached Warsaw, his mother and Epstein fled and joined him in Asia. With his family experiencing anti-Jewish sentiment in several places, in 1917, Epstein came to China with his parents at the age of two and they settled in Tianjin (formerly Tientsin) in 1920.
Journalism[edit]
Israel Epstein began to work in journalism at age 15, when he wrote for the Peking and Tientsin Times, an English-language newspaper based in Tianjin. He also covered the Japanese Invasion of China for the United Press and other Western news agencies. In the autumn of 1938, he joined the China Defense League, which had been established by Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen's widow, for the purpose of publicizing and enlisting international support for the Chinese cause. In 1941, he faked news about his own death as a decoy for the Japanese who were trying to arrest him. The misinformation even found its way into a short item printed in the New York Times.
After being assigned to review one of the books of Edgar Snow, Epstein and Snow came to know each other personally and Snow showed him his classic work Red Star Over China before it was published.
In 1934, Epstein married Edith Bihovsky Epstein, later Ballin, from whom he was divorced in the early 1940s. In 1944, Epstein first visited Britain and afterwards went to live in the United States with his second wife Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley for five years.
He worked for Allied Labor News and published his book The Unfinished Revolution in China in 1947. His book was enthusiastically reviewed in The New York Times by Owen Lattimore of Johns Hopkins University. In 1951 Communist defector Elizabeth Bentley testified to the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, "Israel Epstein had been a member of the Russian secret police for many years in China."[2]
Many years later, his wife, Fairfax-Cholmeley, would become known to a generation of Chinese-language students in China and around the world as a contributor to one of the most widely used Chinese-English dictionaries published in the PRC. After Fairfax-Cholmeley's death in 1984, Epstein married his third wife, Huang Huanbi.[3]
China Today magazine[edit]
In 1951, Soong Ching-ling invited him to return to China to edit the magazine China Reconstructs, which was later renamed China Today. He remained editor-in-chief of China Today until his retirement at age 70, and stayed on as editor emeritus. During his tenure at China Today, he became a Chinese citizen in 1957 and a member of the Communist Party of China in 1964. In 1955, 1965 and 1976 Epstein visited Tibet, and based on these three visits in 1983 published the book Tibet Transformed.[4]
Imprisonment[edit]
During the Cultural Revolution, on charges of plotting against Zhou Enlai, he was imprisoned in 1968 in the north of Beijing in Qincheng Prison, where he was subjected to solitary confinement. In 1973, he was released, and Zhou apologized. His privileges were restored.[5] Despite his 5 years imprisonment, he remained loyal to the ideals of Communism until his death. Israel Epstein was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an advisory body, in 1983.
Honors[edit]
During his life, Israel Epstein was honored by Chinese political leaders Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao. His funeral was held at the Babaoshan Cemetery for Revolutionaries, in Shijingshan District, Beijing on 3 June 2005 at 09:30. The ceremony was attended by many officials, among then President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, as well as Politburo Standing Committee members Jia Qinglin and Li Changchun. After the service, his body was cremated.
Published works[edit]
- The People's War. [An Account of the War in China to the Fall of Hankow], V. Gollancz, 1939, 384 p.
- I Visit Yenan: Eye Witness Account of the Communist-led Liberated Areas in North-West China, People's Publishing House [Bombay], 1945, 94 pp.
- Notes on Labor Problems in Nationalist China, Garland Pub., 1980, 159 pp.
- My China Eye: Memoirs of a Jew and a Journalist, Long River Press, 2005, 358 pp.
- History Should Not be Forgotten, 五洲传播出版社, 2005, 286 pp.
First published in English[edit]
- The Unfinished Revolution in China, Little Brown and Company (1947), hardcover, 442 pp.
Published in Chinese, translated into English[edit]
- From Opium War to Liberation, New World Press (Beijing, 1956), hardcover, 146 pp.
- Tibet Transformed, New World Press (Beijing, 1983), trade paperback, 563 pp, ISBN 0-8351-1087-7
- Woman in World History: Soong Ching Ling, New World Press (Beijing, 1993), hardcover, ISBN 7-80005-161-7
See also[edit]
- Rewi Alley
- Sidney Rittenberg
- Sidney Shapiro
- Jews in China
- Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom – a documentary about Israel Epstein
References[edit]
- ^ Israel Epstein Obituary. The Telegraph, Retrieved 15 December 2014.
- ^ Medford Evans, The Assassination of Joe McCarthy, Western Islands Press, 1970, pp. 117–118
- ^ Song, Anna. (2010). The Heavenly Ford. Tianjin People's Publishing House. p. 151. ISBN 978-7-201-06559-5. OCLC 862144523.
- ^ Israel Epstein, a famous apologist for the Chinese Communist regime
- ^ Israel Epstein. Emigre journalist whose devotion to Communist China withstood even imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, 8 June 2005, The Times
- Adapted from the Wikinfo article "Israel Epstein" 2 June 2005
Sources and external links[edit]
- New York Times Obituary by Douglas Martin
- Obituary People's Daily Online
- Retrospective, China Today
- Biography by China Tibet Information Center
- Xinhua Newsitem on funeral
- Views of a life in China, China.org.cn
Edmond James de Rothschild | |
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| Born | Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild 19 August 1845 |
| Died | 2 November 1934 (aged 89) Boulogne-Billancourt |
| Resting place | Ramat HaNadiv (Israel) Père Lachaise (France) (1935–1954) |
| Nationality | French |
| Spouse(s) | ( m. 1877) |
| Children | James Armand de Rothschild Maurice de Rothschild Alexandrine de Rothschild |
| Parent(s) | James Mayer Rothschild Betty de Rothschild |
Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (19 August 1845 – 2 November 1934) was a French member of the Rothschild banking family. A strong supporter of Zionism, his large donations lent significant support to the movement during its early years, which helped lead to the establishment of the State of Israel, where he is simply known as "the baron Rothschild".
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Early years[edit]
A member of the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, the youngest child of James Mayer Rothschild and Betty von Rothschild. He grew up in the world of the Second Republic and the Second Empire and was a soldier "Garde Mobile" in the first Franco-Prussian War.
In 1877, he married Adelheid von Rothschild of Naples, the daughter of Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild, one of the Rothschild banking family of Naples, with whom he had three children: James Armand Edmond, Maurice Edmond Karl and Miriam Caroline Alexandrine.
Artistic and philanthropic interests[edit]
Art, science and academy[edit]
Edmond de Rothschild inherited Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt and owned the Château Rothschild d'Armainvilliers in Gretz-Armainvilliers in the Seine-et-Marne département.
Edmond took little active part in banking but pursued artistic and philanthropic interests, helping to found scientific research institutions such as the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique, the pre-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and the French Institute in London. In 1907, as a cofounder member, he also provided funds and support for the foundation of the Friends of the French National Museum of Natural History Society.[1] He served as a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts and through it sponsored the archaeological digs of Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau in Egypt, Eustache de Lorey in Syria, and Raymond Weill in Palestine.
Edmond de Rothschild acquired an important collection of drawings and engravings that he bequeathed to the Louvre consisting of more than 40,000 engravings, nearly 3,000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books. Included in this gift were more than one hundred engravings and drawings by Rembrandt. A portion of his art collection was bequeathed to his son James A. de Rothschild and is now part of the National Trust collection at Waddesdon Manor. However, in 1882 Edmond cut back on his purchases of art and began to buy land in Southern Syria (Ottoman Palestine).
Zionism[edit]
He became a leading proponent of the Zionist movement, financing the first site at Rishon LeZion. In his goal for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, he promoted industrialization and economic development. In 1924, he established the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (PICA), which acquired more than 125,000 acres (50,586 ha) of land and set up business ventures.
Edmond de Rothschild also played a pivotal role in Israel's wine industry. Under the supervision of his administrators in Ottoman Palestine, farm colonies and vineyards were established, and two major wineries were opened in Rishon LeZion and Zikhron Ya'akov.[2] It is estimated[by whom?] that Rothschild spent over $50 million in supporting the settlements and backed research in electricity by engineers and financed development of an electric generating station.
Rothschild funded a glass factory that would supply bottles for his wineries. Rothschild met Meir Dizengoff in Paris and chose Dizengoff to launch and manage the new factory, called Mizaga. Dizengoff opened the factory in Tantura in 1892 and managed the factory for approximately two years. Mizaga was the first Jewish-owned factory in Ottoman Palestine.
Jews and Arabs lived amicably on Rothschild's land, with no Arab grievances, even in the worst periods of disturbance.[citation needed] According to historian Albert M. Hyamson, "Rothschild recognised that the overriding interest of the Jews of Palestine was the confidence and the friendship of their Arab neighbours. The interests of the Arab cultivators of the land he bought were never overlooked, but by development he made this land capable of maintaining a population ten times its former size."[3] While Edmond de Rothschild was not always supportive of an inclusive government - he suggested in 1931 to Judah Magnes that "We must hold them (the Arabs) down with a strong hand" [4] - he acknowledged the importance of co-governance and peaceful coexistence in a 1934 letter to the League of Nations, stating that "the struggle to put an end to the Wandering Jew, could not have as its result, the creation of the Wandering Arab."[5]
Death[edit]
In 1934, Baron de Rothschild died at Château Rothschild, Boulogne-Billancourt. His wife died a year later on 29 December 1935. They were interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris until April 1954 when their remains were transported to Israel aboard a naval frigate.
At the port of Haifa, the ship was met with sirens and a 19-gun salute. A state funeral was held with former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion giving the eulogy following which Edmond de Rothschild and his wife were re-interred in Ramat HaNadiv Memorial Gardens near the towns of Zichron Ya'akov and Binyamina, both of which he helped found and are named in his family's honor.
Commemoration[edit]
For his Jewish philanthropy Baron Edmond became known as "HaNadiv HaYadu'a", (Hebrew for "The Known Benefactor" or "The Famous Benefactor") and in his memory his son bequeathed the funds to construct the building for the Knesset.
Israel's 1982/5742 Independence Day coin is dedicated to the memory of Edmond de Rothschild and marks the centenary of his first projects in Israel. From 1982 until 1986, the Bank of Israel used his portrait on the 500 Israeli sheqel note.[6]
Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv is named after him, as well as various localities throughout Israel which he assisted in founding. Rishon LeZion, the city which he helped to found named one of the central streets Rothschild Street, and in 1996 Rothschild Mall was built. Also named after him is the Parc Edmond de Rothschild (Edmond de Rothschild Park) in Boulogne-Billancourt.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Yves Laissus, "Cent ans d'histoire", 1907-2007 - Les Amis du Muséum, centennial special, September 2007, supplement to the quarterly publication Les Amis du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, n° 230, June 2007, ISSN 1161-9104 (in French).
- ^ Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel, vol. 2, "Rothschild, Baron Edmond-James de", p. 966
- ^ Hyamson, Albert M. Palestine: A Policy, Methuen, 1942 p. 58
- ^ Daniel P. Kotzin, Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Nonconformist, Syracuse University Press, 2010 p. 235.
- ^ David Whitten Smith, Elizabeth Geraldine Burr, Understanding World Religions: A Road Map for Justice and Peace , Revised Ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 p.224.
- ^ "Error1-2010". Bankisrael.gov.il. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
Further reading[edit]
- Antébi, Elizabeth (2003). Edmond de Rothschild : l'homme qui racheta la terre sainte (in French). Monaco: Rocher. ISBN 978-2268044422.
- Aharonson, Ran (2000). Rothschild and Early Jewish Colonization in Palestine. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-9654930581.
- Patai, Raphael (1971). "Rothschild, Baron Edmond-James de". Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel. vol. 2. New York: Herzl Press. p. 966.
- Schama, Simon (1978). Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0394501376.
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