Editing Rothschild family (section)

== Cultural references ==
[[File:De Haar castlle.jpg|thumb|The neo-Gothic [[Castle de Haar]]]]

In the words of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'': "This multinational banking family is a byword for wealth, power – and discretion... The Rothschild name has become synonymous with money and power to a degree that perhaps no other family has ever matched."<ref>''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), ''The Rothschilds: They prefer to let their money do the talking'', William Langley, 25 October 2008.</ref>
[[File:Rothschildschloss Waidhofen 2024.jpg|thumb|left|The neo-Gothic [[Rothschildschloss]], [[Waidhofen an der Ybbs|Waidhofen]]]]

Writing of the [[Rockefeller family|Rockefeller]] and Rothschild families, [[Harry Mount]] writes: "That is what makes these two dynasties so exceptional – not just their dizzying wealth, but the fact that they have held on to it for so long: and not just the loot, but also their family companies."<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9300205/Rothschild-and-Rockefeller-their-family-fortunes.html Rothschild and Rockefeller: their family fortunes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216061306/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/9300205/Rothschild-and-Rockefeller-their-family-fortunes.html |date=16 February 2018 }} Harry Mount, 30 May 2012, ''The Daily Telegraph'' (London).</ref>

The story of the Rothschild family has been featured in a number of films. The 1934 Hollywood film titled ''[[The House of Rothschild]]'', starring [[George Arliss]] and [[Loretta Young]], recounted the life of [[Mayer Amschel Rothschild]] and [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild]] (both played by Arliss). Excerpts from this film were incorporated into the Nazi propaganda film ''[[The Eternal Jew (1940 film)|Der ewige Jude]]'' (''The Eternal Jew'') without the permission of the copyright holder. Another Nazi film, ''Die Rothschilds'' (also called ''Aktien auf Waterloo''), was directed by [[Erich Waschneck]] in 1940. A Broadway musical entitled ''[[The Rothschilds (musical)|The Rothschilds]]'', covering the history of the family up to 1818, was nominated for a [[Tony Award]] in 1971. [[Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild|Nathaniel Mayer ("Natty") Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild]] appears as a minor character in the historical-mystery novel ''[[Stone's Fall]]'', by [[Iain Pears]]. Mayer Rothschild is featured in [[Diana Gabaldon]]'s novel ''[[Voyager (novel)|Voyager]]'' as a coin seller summoned to Le Havre by Jamie Fraser to appraise coins, prior to the establishment of the Rothschild dynasty, when Mayer is in his early 20s. The Rothschild name is mentioned by [[Aldous Huxley]] in his novel ''[[Brave New World]]'', among many names of historically affluent persons, scientific innovators and others. The character, named Morgana Rothschild, played a relatively minor role in the story. The name Rothschild used as a synonym for extreme wealth inspired the song "[[If I Were a Rich Man (song)|If I Were a Rich Man]]", which is based on a song from the [[Tevye]] the Dairyman stories, written in the [[Yiddish language|Yiddish]] as {{lang|yi-Latn|Ven ikh bin Rotshild}}, meaning 'If I were a Rothschild'.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lyricsmania.com/tradition_lyrics_fiddler_on_the_roof.html|title=Fiddler On The Roof – Tradition Lyrics|website=Lyrics Mania |access-date=2 November 2015|archive-date=2 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102041409/http://www.lyricsmania.com/tradition_lyrics_fiddler_on_the_roof.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In France, the word "Rothschild" was throughout the 19th and 20th centuries a synonym for seemingly endless wealth, neo-Gothic styles, and epicurean glamour.<ref>''The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty'', By Frederic Morton (1998), p. 5.</ref> The family also has lent its name to "{{visible anchor|le [[goût Rothschild]]}}," a very glamorous style of interior decoration whose elements include neo-Renaissance palaces, extravagant use of velvet and gilding, vast collections of armour and sculpture, a sense of [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[Horror vacui (art)|horror vacui]], and the highest masterworks of art. Le goût Rothschild has influenced designers such as [[Robert Denning]], [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]], [[Vincent Fourcade]] and others.
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|text="Yes, my dear fellow, it all amounts to this: in order to do something first you must be something. We think Dante great, and he had a civilization of centuries behind him; the House of Rothschild is rich and it has required much more than one generation to attain such wealth. Such things all lie much deeper than one thinks." |sign= [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe]], October 1828<ref>Ferguson, ch. 1.</ref>
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