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Editors’ Pick

November 3, 2015

“Rothschild & Sons”: A Musical about the Great Jewish Banking Family

By the songwriters behind Fiddler on the Roof.

In 1970, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, who had written the songs to Fiddler on the Roof, created another musical about a Jewish family—but this time about the Rothschilds, who became one of Europe’s wealthiest families in the early 19th century. Harnick collaborated in producing an updated version of the play, entitled Rothschild & Sons, now being performed in New York. Gabriela Geselowitz writes in her review:

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