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May 8, 2025

Jews in Country Houses

And the anti-Semites who resented them.

Countless Americans now have an image of aristocratic English life formed by the television series Downton Abbey. But few would know that the very real castle where the show was filmed was the longtime residence of Countess Almina Herbert, who was an illegitimate daughter of Alfred de Rothschild, a leading member of the famous Jewish banking family. Phoebe Maltz Bovy reviews the book whence she learned this tidbit, and much else:

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