The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times (1886) (14801782603)

Identifier: jewsinancientmed00hosmuoft (find matches)
Title: The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834-1927
Subjects: Jews
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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, was Rothschild. Themoney-changer had raised himself from a low posi-tion by unusual dexterity. By a touch of the fingerhe could tell the value of any strange coin ; at thesame time he had won a name as an honest man.At length into the Rhine region, in the year 1793,came pouring the legions of the red republicans fromFrance. The princes fled in terror from the inva-sion, and the landgrave of Hesse Cassel, driving upto the door of the Jew, in the confusion, surprisedhim with this address : I know of old your trusti-ness. I confide all I have in the world to you.Here is my treasure; here are the jewels of myfamily. Save the jewels if you can, and do with themoney as you choose. The landgrave became afugitive, and within an hour or two the sans culottes,taking possession of the city, were plundering highand low. Neither Jew nor Christian escaped, MeyerAnselm sufTering with the rest. * Several interesting facts in this sketch are derived from a letter of Junots in the Philadelphia Press.
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IN IHE FRANKFORT JUPF-N-GASSE. 26o THE STORY OF THE JEWS. Ten years later, with the coming of Napoleon intopower, stability was again restored. The landgrave,returning, called at the Red Shield in the Juden-gasseof Frankfort, with small hope of receiving a good re-port. Well, here I am, friend Meyer, escaped withnothing but life. To his astonishment, the faithfultrustee had been able through all the trouble of thetime to conduct affairs prosperously. While his ownmeans had been plundered, he had saved in somehiding-place in the cellar-wall the treasure of theprince. The heirloom jewels were untouched ; withthe money he had made a million ; and he now re-stored all to the wondering landgrave, principal andinterest. This was the beginning of the marvellouscareer of the great house of Rothschild. The princespread far and wide the stor) of his rescue from ruin.One may well suspect that the shrewd old hawkof the Juden-gasse had had all along a careful eyetoward the comfortable feathering o