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  Edmond James de Rothschild Information
Baron Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild (August 19, 1845 - November 2, 1934) was a philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
A member of the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-sur-Seine, the youngest child of James Mayer Rothschild and Betty von Rothschild.
Edmond de Rothschild was also involved in the founding of Israel's wine industry when he helped Russian Jews flee pogroms in the 1880s and plant vineyards in their Palestine settlements.
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  Edmond James de Rothschild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (August 19, 1845 - November 2, 1934) was a philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
A member of the French branch of the Rothschild banking dynasty, he was born in the Paris suburb of Boulogne-sur-Seine, the youngest child of James Mayer Rothschild and Betty von Rothschild.
Edmond de Rothschild was also involved in the founding of Israel's wine industry when he helped Russian Jews flee pogroms in the 1880s and plant vineyards in their Palestine settlements.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmond_James_de_Rothschild   (551 words)

  
 Edmond James de Rothschild - Definition, explanation
Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (August 19, 1845 - November 2, 1934) was a philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
In April of 1954, the remains of Edmond de Rothschild and his wife were removed from the French cemetery where they had been buried twenty years earlier and transported to Israel aboard a naval frigate.
For his Jewish philanthropy Baron Edmond became known as "Hanadiv", (The Benefactor) and in his memory his son bequeathed the funds to construct the building for the Knesset.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/ed/edmond_james_de_rothschild.php   (547 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - House of Rothschild
The youngest son, James Rothschild (1792-1868), founded the Paris branch of the house of Rothschild in 1817.
Alphonse Rothschild (1827-1905), the eldest son of James, was a prominent banker and philanthropist.
Although the power of the Rothschilds declined with the introduction of new methods of state financing in the late 19th century and with the disruption of Europe during World Wars I and II, the banking house in Paris retained its eminence in the financial world.
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 Rothschild family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
In 1885, Nathan Mayer Rothschild II (1840-1915) of the London branch of the family, was granted the peerage title Baron Rothschild in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Rothschild family banking businesses pioneered international high finance during the industrialisation of Europe and were instrumental in supporting railway systems across the world and in complex government financing for projects such as the Suez Canal.
James' sons Gustave de Rothschild and Alphonse de Rothschild continued the banking tradition and were responsible for raising the money to pay the compensation demanded by the occupying Prussian army in the 1870s Franco-Prussian War.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rothschild-family.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Lizeray Family tree - pafg574 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Margaretha Alexandrine de ROTHSCHILD was born in 1855.
Edmond James de ROTHSCHILD [Parents] was born in 1845.
James Armand de ROTHSCHILD was born in 1878.
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 Rothschild Boulevard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Rothschild's first visits to Erez Israel (1887, 1893, 1899) were devoted to tours of the settlements, investigating the rate of development and demanding self-labor, modest living standards, speaking of Hebrew, and a concern for religious tradition.
Rothschild played a major role in the development of the wine industry in Erez Israel, was a co-sponsor of the Palestine Electric Corporation, the founder of smaller industries and contributed funds to the establishment of the Hebrew University.
Toward the end of WWI, Rothschild's son James arrived in Erez Israel with the British army and was among the recruiters for the Jewish battalions in the Yishuv.
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 Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (1845-1934)
Edmond de Rothschild first became involved in Jewish affairs after the pogroms in Russia in the 1880s.
By 1914, Rothschild was able to visit expanded settlements as well as a number of his major and minor investments.
Toward the end of the war, his son, James, arrived in Eretz Yisrael with the British army and was among the recruiters for the Jewish battalions in the yishuv.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/people/BIOS/eroth.html   (531 words)

  
 1845 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
December 2 - Manifest Destiny: US President James Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
James K. Polk succeeds John Tyler as President of the United States of America
Ephraim Bee reveals that the Emperor of China has given him a special dispensation; that he had entrusted him with certain sacred and mysterious rituals through Caleb Cushing, the US Commissioner to China, to "extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus" in the new world.
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 Art and Spirit Forums - Edit Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
1957: James de Rothschild dies and it is reported (by the Rothschild owned media) that he bequeaths a large sum of money to the state of Israel to pay for the construction of their parliament building, the Knesset.
Edmond de Rothschild establishes La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild (LCF), in Switzerland as a venture capital house.
Edmond de Rothschild, a great-grandson of Jacob (James) Mayer Rothschild, bought the cru bourgeois estate of Château Clarke in Bordeaux.
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 Rothschild
Baron Edmond James (Avrahim Binyamin) de Rothschild (1845-1934) is the known as the "Father of the Settlement" (Avi ha-Yishuv).
The Independence Day coin 1982/5742 is dedicated to the memory of Edmond de Rothschild and marks the centenary of his first projects in Israel.
A portrait of Baron Rothschild with the inscription in Hebrew, "Father of the Jewish Settlement".
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 Rothschilds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Rothschild is the remaining major banker in England.
Karl Mayer Rothschild, 1788-1868, To Naples in 1821.
James Mayer Rothschild, 1792-1868, To Paris in 1812.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/business/rothschilds   (223 words)

  
 Rishon LeZion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
After the digging of the Great Well and a wave of new settlers arriving (the Biluim) the new settlement started to establish itself.
It was later given into the custody of Baron Edmond James de Rothschild who supported the settlement and helped develop their agriculture, citrus fruit ("Pri Adar") and wine industry.
Baron Edmond James de Rothschild - the French Jewish philanthropist who supported Rishon.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Rishon_LeZion   (1332 words)

  
 LAFITE - DBR
Jacques de Ségur is credited with the planting of the Lafite vineyard in the 1670’s and in the early 1680’s.
The Ségur family’s stewardship of Lafite ended brutally with the execution of Nicolas Pierre de Pichard during the chapter of French history known as the Terreur, on the 12th Messidor of year 2, under the short-lived Republican calendar (30 June 1794).
The Barons de Rothschild recovered possession of Château Lafite Rothschild at the end of 1945, and Baron Elie was responsible for recovering the estate’s business.
www.lafite.com /en/php/vins/7_2_1.php?id_chateau=29   (1959 words)

  
 mhp: Rothschild, Edmond James de
• Baron Rothschild was a supporter of Weizmann and the Zionist movement
^ Rothschild, James E. de (Father of, 1878-12-18)
Edmond de Rothschild -- Edmond J. de Rothschild -- Edmond James de Rothschild
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 Declaración Balfour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
de noviembre de 1917 en favor de la creación de una nación judía en Palestina.
La idea fue consolidándose a través de una carta enviada en marzo de 1916 por el político británico Arthur James Balfour, que en esta época era ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del gabinete presidido por David Lloyd George, a Edmond James Rothschild, un destacado defensor del sionismo.
El 24 de julio de 1922, la declaración fue incorporada al mandato de la Sociedad de Naciones para Palestina, en el cual se establecían las condiciones conforme a las cuales se le confiaba a Gran Bretaña la administración temporal de este país en nombre de sus ciudadanos árabes y judíos.
www.jerusalemites.org /spanish/documentos/7.htm   (311 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Edmond James de Rothschild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
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Baron Edmond James de Rothschild (born August 19, 1845 - died November 2, 1934) was a philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs and a member of the prominent Rothschild family.
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 Israel Updates-March
Edmond James de Rothschild was born in France in 1845 to a wealthy family who headed a highly successful, world-wide banking empire.
By 1900, Rothschild's numerous visits to Israel to assist in settlement there earned him the nick- name "Father of the Yishuv".
While Rothschild lived in Paris, he realized the importance of a Jewish State in the Jewish homeland.
www.uscj.org /metny/kiryah/OldUpdates/march.htm   (2883 words)

  
 Zionist Land Acquisition
Baron Benjamin (Edmond James) de Rothschild (1845-1934) enlisted in this cause after being petitioned by the leaders of Rishon Lezion, one of the First Aliya villages.
The best-known settlements sponsored by Rothschild are Metulla, Zikhron Ya'akov, Rishon Lezion, and Rosh Pina.
In 1900, Rothschild transferred the settlements, their agricultural enterprises, and 25,000 hectares of land to the Jewish Colonization Association (ICA, est.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_early_palestine_zionists_land.php   (1096 words)

  
 mhp: Rothschild, James E. A. de
^ Rothschild, Edmond James de (Son of, 1878-12-18)
^ Rothschild, Edmond de (Son of, 1926)
James de Rothschild -- James E. de Rothschild
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 RavFrand List - Rabbi Frand on Parshas Bo - 5757 - Torah.org
At the end of the Parsha we have a Mitzvah to "Sanctify for Me (G-d) all the first born..." [13:2] The first born of human beings and animals are holy to G-d.
Baron Rothschild, as we all know, was a fantastically wealthy person who put his money to good use.
Baron Edmond James De Rothschild -- (1845-1934) philanthropist, patron of Jewish causes and Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel.
www.torah.org /learning/ravfrand/5757/bo.html   (1437 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: U.S.
When Baron Edmond James de Rothschild bought the land almost a century ago, he planned to use it for Israeli kibbutzes.
Along with her university colleagues Avner Raban and Elisha Linder, she spent almost 30 years researching the remains of the port before approaching the Rothschild company with the idea for an underwater museum.
Comparing it with other Roman ports like Barcelona and Ostia, she said: ``Haifa is a virgin site; the others were in continual use since ancient times,'' which destroyed many archeological clues.
www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=awhHoHCsg3HE   (920 words)

  
 The Friends of Lambert Dolphin--Part 2
Indeed, Arutz Sheva was supported financially by a wealthy Jew from England, and has ties to France to this day perhaps on account of Edmond James having been a member of the French Rothschilds.
Edmond founded the Rothschild Jewish Colonization Association that later became the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, wherefore we are not surprised to find that Zionism became a partnership between the British and French Rothschilds.
Clearly, Welty and the Arutz Sheva, as players in support of Zionism much smaller than the Rothschilds, are supporting the Rothschild agenda...whether or not Arutz Sheva is on side with the current Rothschilds.
www.tribwatch.com /dolphin2.htm   (6048 words)

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