History of Finance

The mercantile system created a new reality for Jewish businessmen, and new challenges for Jewish law and the rabbis applying...

German bankers carrying sacks of money, 1923. Photo by Georg Pahl. Published with permission from the...

Baron Edmond de Rothschild There is a tendency in very wealthy families for some of the...

Amschel Mayer Rothschild In the Middle Ages, the Church, in a misapplication of the Biblical prohibition...

Kai Feng Jews A Christian merchant in 12th century London once remarked, “As long as Isaac...

If anyone has come to this article for financial wisdom or advice, I’d like to disabuse you of that at...