Sangita Jindal, Chairperson of JSW Foundation collaborated with India’s leading conservation architect Abha Narain Lambah to execute the restoration project. Reportedly, private donations worth 3.6 crores were used in this restoration project.
The Sassoon family cannot be reduced to a stereotype of wealthy Jewish collectors who assimilated into European culture, nor can they be seen simply as “The Rothschilds of the East.”
David Sassoon Library has been restored thanks to private donations worth 3.6 crores. The Sassoon story itself is a fascinating one. It begins with David, the founding father of the dynasty, who escaped Ottoman Baghdad for Iran in the late 1820s.
The legacy of the Sassoons, the Baghdadi Jewish dynasty that made its fortune in trade across Asia, is in the news. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah explains why their story matters today.