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David Sassoon Library Reopens Today, Who Were The Sassoons And What Is Their Story?

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.

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The Sassoon family: The Jewish dynasty who became global merchants

How did a Baghdadi family of refugees manage to build a global trade empire spanning three continents? From its charismatic patriarch who remained loyal to his Jewish roots to his enterprising descendants/ This is the story of "the Rothschilds of the east"

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The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the Rothschilds of the East

In 'Sassoon,' Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals

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Acre Bahai Shrine damaged in fire

Damage was sustained to NIS 250 million construction site dedicated to Abdul Baha.

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Reviewed in short: New books by Sofi Thanhauser, Jessica Au, Jo Browning Wroe and Joseph Sassoon

Reviewed in short: New books by Sofi Thanhauser, Jessica Au, Jo Browning Wroe and Joseph Sassoon
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