Tag Archives: David Druck

Rothschild’s faulty towers: grovel at the chamber pot

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Dave

Of the first thirty-seven years of Edmond de Rothschild’s life little is known. According to his biographer, David Druck, he lived a sheltered, guarded, ivory tower existence. Life in palaces he certainly led. There was his family’s elegant town house … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged David Druck, Heinrich Heine, Joseph Paxton, Joseph Paxton Crystal Palace, Ludwig Boerne, Mentmore Towers, Michael Goldfarb, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Nathan Straus, Niall Ferguson, Robert A. Pois, Schlegel brothers | Leave a comment

what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading →

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rothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Dave

its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared zionism, had an anathema for democracy, and became, … Continue reading →