After the United States and Great Britain, the destination that attracted the most Jewish immigrants between the late 19th and early 20th centuries was, on the face of it, a counterintuitive choice.

Baron Edmond de Rothschild, the “father” of Palestine colonisation, attained his 86th birthday today. The Baron, who was born in Paris on August 19th, 1845, the youngest son of Baron James de ...

A hundred years ago, on December 9th., 1831, Baron Maurice de Hirsch, the great philanthropist who created the Jewish Colonisation Association (Ica), was born in Munich, the eldest son of Baron Joseph ...

The Baron de Rede, who died on Thursday aged 82, was the man who restored the Hotel Lambert in Paris, and was variously described as "the Eugene de Rastignac of modern Paris" (by Chips Channon), "La ...

Baron Guy de Rothschild, who died on Tuesday aged 98, was the head of the French branch of his famous family and responsible for restoring the fortunes of the Rothschild bank in Paris after the Second ...