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Denotation for entrepreneurs and bankers of Jewish origin, who had direct access to the emperor in late Wilhelmine Germany. The disrespectfully intended term “Kaiserjuden,” only later used by the Jewish side, expressed the view that they had allied themselves with the German ruler. However, it was mostly Emperor Wilhelm II himself who sought their company, in which he enjoyed a certain cosmopolitanism of entertainment, knowledge, and advice, such as he could not otherwise encounter in h…