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Rózsika Rothschild (born Rózsika Edle von Wertheimstein; Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary, 15 October 1870 – London, 30 June 1940) was a tennis player and the wife of the banker and entomologist Charles Rothschild.
Rózsika was a descendent of a Jewish family who were one of the wealthiest families in Europe and had made their fortune in the 17th century. She grew up as one of seven children. She was fiercely intelligent, multi-lingual and a champion lawn tennis player in Hungary.
2 de abr. de 2024 · Rózsika von Wertheimstein was a rakish Hungarian intellectual, while Dolly Pinto (1895-1988) was a privileged, sharp-witted young woman betrothed to an older Rothschild man before she was out of her teens.
31 de oct. de 2022 · Rózsika Rothschild (1870-1940) was a political idealist, so when she came across the young chemist [and Zionist leader] Chaim Weizmann she had a conversation with him.
23 de oct. de 2022 · But, as Livingstone makes clear, the exceptional spirit and determination of these unlikely sisters was fostered by their indomitable mother, Rózsika, a winner of Hungary’s women’s tennis...
12 de nov. de 2021 · The story of the early 20th-century family is dominated by two women who married into the name ‘Rothschild’. Rózsika von Wertheimstein was a rakish Hungarian intellectual, while Dolly Pinto (1895-1988) was a privileged, sharp-witted young woman betrothed to an older Rothschild man before she was out of her teens.
15 de nov. de 2021 · Dorothy and Rózsika got the rest of the Rothschild family involved in the Zionist cause, she says, and they lobbied politicians, including the foreign secretary.
