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Joyce Rothschild, Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild, Walter Rothschild

„Sans Papiers“

A Biography of Landgerichtsrat Walter Fritz Rothschild (1890–1950) and his Family

Language: English
1400 pages, hardcover
45 illustrations
ISBN: 978-3-95565-768-0
Publication date presumably 03/2026
49.00 €

This is a Family Chronicle, reflecting the German Jewish experience of the 20th century. Walter Rothschild was born 1890 into an established and prosperous family in Hannover – his father Julius had worked his way up from Dorfjudentum to become a government adviser. Walter studied at German universities, fought for the Kaiser and became a judge – until the world changed again in 1933. Following ‘internal exile’ and maltreatment in Dachau he was able to flee, stateless and increasingly paraplegic, to Switzerland. His son Edgar had been sent abroad for his own safety and arrived in England just before War broke out. Walter's main desire was to stay in contact with his son, whose own adolescent and youthful ambitions were also affected by the conflict and the post-war situation. 
Discovery of several caches of documents has enabled us to trace a lot of the story – though gaps remain – of our family from Germany to Switzerland and England. 

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Joyce Rothschild

born in Bradford in 1955 and graduated with a joint honours in Music and English from Birmingham University in 1977.  She has worked as a teacher, an Education Advisor, an Inspector of Schools and as an Executive Coach. She is a Presiding Justice within the British Magistracy and is the Chair of Birmingham Progressive Synagogue. She is a keen musician and photographer. In 2017 she received a British Empire Medal for her charity fundraising.

Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild

born in Bradford in 1957 and graduated from Manchester university with a degree in psychology. After working in psychological social work she studied at Leo Baeck College and was ordained in 1987 becoming the 8th woman to receive such ordination. She worked as a congregational rabbi in south London for thirty years and with a small community in Milan for a further nine. She is currently rabbi emerita of Lev Chadash Milano and works at Heart of Kent Hospice as Spiritual Care Lead developing new models of providing spiritual care for palliative patients and their families. She has a special interest in developing new liturgies.

Walter Rothschild

Dr., geboren 1954 in Bradford, studierte Theologie an der Universität Cambridge und wurde 1984 vom Leo Baeck College in London zum Rabbiner ordiniert. Er war in verschiedenen Gemeinden in Großbritannien, Österreich, auf den Niederländischen Antillen, in Deutschland und Polen tätig. Er ist Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Dichter und Liedermacher, Theologe und begeisterter und angesehener Eisenbahnhistoriker – ein Experte für den Nahen Osten und die Eisenbahnen im Zweiten Weltkrieg.