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1. “Houses on the same footprint, there wasn't enough space to make new buildings, old more structures were added onto existing buildings and these cantilevered high rise, really dark, quite precarious, unsafe buildings. The ghetto was practically an open sewer, acrid fumes engulfed the street. It was incredibly unsanitary, disease ran rife, and people who used to visit the ghetto, it became something of a curiosity for kind of, you know, that was part of the tour of Frankfurt you went to see this spectacularly hideous Eudengassa or Jews Lane. And a lot of the diaries and a lot of the chronicles of these visitors comment on how pale the Jews looked because there was really no light. They were completely ateliated. They were actually deprived of sunlight.”

   2022-01-18 · Intelligence Squared · The Untold Story of the Rothschild Women, with Natalie Livingstone · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Yeah, it is extraordinary. And in order to understand the root of this exclusion, you've got to go right back to the origins of the family. You've got to go to the cradle of the Rothschild dynasty, which is far from the grand houses and gilded lifestyles and marble hallways that one generally associates with the Rothschild family. The Rothschild family actually began in the dark and crowded Frankfurt Ghetto, the Yuden Gasse, which was a very narrow strip of lane along the city's northeastern fortifications. And the Jews were herded into that in 1462. By 1610, there were 3,000 people living in 200 houses. So it was incredibly tight. of the first matriarch Gutler Schnapper, there were more than double that number of people, more than double 3,000 people crammed into these tiny”

   2022-01-18 · Intelligence Squared · The Untold Story of the Rothschild Women, with Natalie Livingstone · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “By Miriam Rothschild in 1994 called The First Members of the EEC, and in this essay the author Miriam Rothschild, who I found was this incredible 20th century polymath more of her later, I hope. She spoke about her female ancestors and she spoke about the fact that they were a parallel but separate little world. And this I found utterly intriguing and I wanted to know what this parallel but separate little world was that I didn't know about. And all of a sudden hundreds of years of history that I assumed I knew just kind of got blown out into the open and all these stories were there to be discovered.”

   2022-01-18 · Intelligence Squared · The Untold Story of the Rothschild Women, with Natalie Livingstone · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “Yeah, so I just finished writing my first book, as you mentioned, The Mistresses of Clibden, and I really enjoyed writing about these woefully under researched women. And it was something that I felt very passionately about. And I was considering my next project. And we went out with, I went out for lunch. In fact, you were at the lunch too with our mutual friend, Andrew Roberts, and we were thinking about what I should do next. And Andrew Roberts said, what are the two things you're most interested in? And I said, I'm fascinated in the study of women, fascinated in Jewish history. And he brilliantly said, what about the Rothschild women? And I thought, okay, this has got potential. So the first thing I did was I picked up Hannah Rothschild's magnificent biography of her great aunt Nika called The Baroness. And that was just mind-blowing for me. I thought, my goodness, what an incredible story. And then I went to the library and I stumbled upon an essay, which”

   2022-01-18 · Intelligence Squared · The Untold Story of the Rothschild Women, with Natalie Livingstone · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT