What is it about?
An analysis of the Rothschild family at Gunnersbury Park from 1835 until 1925, showing how the architecture, interior decoration and social use of the house both reflected its villa heritage and the family's growing acculturation as British Jews.
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Why is it important?
It reanimates a house which has often been ignored in Rothschild historiography to show that it formed a model for later Rothschild homes in Britain, just as it reflected the growing social acculturation of this second-generation Jewish banking family.
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This page is a summary of: A rite of social passage: Gunnersbury Park, 1835–1925, a Rothschild family villa, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2019.1655222.
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