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The Gunzburgs - A Family Biography (Hardcover)
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The Gunzburgs - A Family Biography (Hardcover)
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In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large
family, a retinue of business staff and extensive domestic help:
personal assistants, secretaries, tutors, wet-nurses and nannies,
coachmen, ladies' companions, valets and maids, and even a kosher
cook. For the Gunzburgs were practising Jews who observed every
religious law whilst also launching themselves into Parisian high
society. Napoleon III was on a mission to modernise France and the
Gunzburgs were quick to avail themselves of opportunities that were
opening up - particularly in banking. The family fortunes prospered
through hard work, foresight and marriage. Soon the family was
playing a leading role in the Jewish communities of both Russia and
France, alongside their contemporaries or relatives the Ephrussis,
the Rothschilds, the Brodskys, the Camondos and the Sassoons. The
family lived through the tumultuous events of the Franco-Prussian
War of 1871, and when family tragedy struck later, they returned
the family base to Russia. They witnessed the Russian pogroms and
revolution of 1905. Their sons fought in the armies of three
countries in the First World War, only to go into exile as
revolution gripped Russia in 1917-18. The outbreak of the Second
World War saw some of the family once again on the road as
refugees. Lorraine de Meaux discovers lost archives, letters and
pictures, as she brings together distant family members in her
story of the Gunzburgs.
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