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Ephrussi family

The Ephrussi family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family. The family's bank and properties were seized by the Nazi authorities after the 1938 "Anschluss", the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

History
The Ephrussi family progenitor was Charles Joachim Ephrussi (1792–1864) from Berdichev, Ukraine. He made a fortune controlling grain distribution beginning in the free port of Odesa (then Russian Empire, now Ukraine) and later controlled large-scale oil resources across Crimea and the Caucasus. By 1860, the family was the world's largest exporter of wheat. Leonid's son Charles Ephrussi (1849–1905), a well-known art historian, collector and editor, became a model for the character of Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time. on Vienna's Ringstraße (Universitätsring), opposite the Votivkirche, 2006 The family name is considered to be a variation of Ephrati, as a reference to "Ephraim" in 1 Samuel , a Hebrew family name attested in the 14th century in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) as Efrati and later in central Europe and Russia as Ephrati or Ephrussi. ==Notable members==
Notable members
on the French Riviera, 2011 Notable members of the Ephrussi family include: • Ignace von Ephrussi (1829–1899), Austrian banker • Michel Ephrussi (1845–1914), French banker • (1846–1915), French banker • Charles Ephrussi (1849–1905), art historian, proprietor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, an inspiration for Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perduMaurice Ephrussi (1849–1916), French banker • Viktor von Ephrussi (1860–1945), Austrian banker • Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild (1864–1934), member of the Rothschild family and wife of Maurice EphrussiFanny Reinach (1870–1917) • (1880–1964) • Elisabeth de Waal (1899–1991), née von Ephrussi, ancestor of the de Waal family members named below • (1904–1985), painter • Ignace von Ephrussi (1906–1994) • Rudolf von Ephrussi (1918–1971) • Victor de Waal (born 1929), British Anglican priest, former Dean of Canterbury • Constant Hendrik de Waal (1931–2016), became Sir Henry de Waal, First Parliamentary Counsel 1987–1991 • Hendrik de Waal (born 1955), real estate developer • Anne Ephrussi (born 1955), group leader at EMBL since 1992, head of the Developmental Biology Unit since 2007 • John de Waal (born 1962), British barrister • Alexander de Waal (born 1963), British writer and journalist, executive director of World Peace Foundation, founder of human rights organisations African Rights and Justice Africa, director of Social Science Research Council on AIDS New York • Edmund de Waal (born 1964), British potter, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThomas de Waal (born 1966), British journalist (BBC, The Moscow Times and The Times), Caucasus expert, Caucasus editor at Institute for War and Peace Reporting, senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ==Properties==
Properties
, Paris Notable properties of the family included: • Palais Ephrussi, a Ringstraßenpalais in ViennaHôtel de Breteuil, 12 avenue Foch, Paris (owned by May Ephrussi, Princesse de Faucigny-Lucinge, 1937–1954 • Hôtel Michel Ephrussi, 81 , Paris (built for Michel Ephrussi, c. 1871) • Hôtel Jules Ephrussi, 2 place des États-Unis, Paris (built for Jules Ephrussi, 1886) • Hôtel Charles Ephrussi, 11 avenue d'Iéna, Paris (home of Charles Ephrussi; later demolished) • Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on the Côte d'AzurVilla Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur ==Other Ephrussi==
Other Ephrussi
Descendants of the Kishinev banker Joseph Ephrusi (Efrusi): • Boris Ephrussi (1901–1979), Russo-French geneticist, Professor of Genetics at the University of Paris. • (1865, Kishinev – 1897, San Remo), Russian economist and journalist, member of the Russkoye Bogatstvo monthly magazine, brother of Perla Ephrussi and . • Perla Ephrussi (also Paula and Polina Ephrussi, 1876, Kishinev – 1942, Pyatigorsk), Russian educational psychologist. • (1878, Kishinev – 1942, Pyatigorsk), Soviet pediatric researcher. • Yakov Ephrussi (, 1900, Odessa – 1996, St. Petersburg), Soviet engineer, innovator in the field of television technology, nephew of and . == The Hare with Amber Eyes ==
The Hare with Amber Eyes
The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) is a family memoir of the Ephrussi family by British potter Edmund de Waal, whose grandmother was Elisabeth Ephrussi. ==References==
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