AISH: Remembering Sir Evelyn de Rothschild

When I first heard the sad news that Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, the scion of the famous Jewish banking family and former head of his family’s merchant bank in London, had died on November 7, 2022 at the age of 91, I phoned my mother.

My mom’s first job was Sir Evelyn’s bank and she has warm memories of the bank owner’s kindly son, who was learning the business and would soon become the bank’s new chairman.  He and his family were popular with the workers, willing to chat, and to give their fellow Jews a job when few other banks would do so.

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