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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Joseph Sassoon
DESCRIPTION:A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of 
 a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi S
 assoons\, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotto
 n\, opium\, shipping\, banking—that reached across three continents and 
 ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare fami
 ly photographs and archives. They were one of the richest families in the 
 world for two hundred years\, from the 19th century to the 20th\, and were
  known as ‘the Rothschilds of the East.’\n\nMesopotamian in origin\, a
 nd for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad
  and Basra\, they were forced to flee to Bushir on the Persian Gulf\; Davi
 d Sassoon and sons starting over with nothing\, and beginning to trade in 
 India in cotton and opium.\n\nThe Sassoons soon were building textile mill
 s and factories\, and setting up branches in shipping in China\, and expan
 ding beyond\, to Japan\, and further west\, to Paris and London. They beca
 me members of British parliament\; were knighted\; and owned and edited Br
 itain’s leading newspapers\, including The Sunday Times and The Observer
 .\n\nAnd in 1887\, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the b
 anking empire of Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage\, fusing toge
 ther two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world.
 \n\nAgainst the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire a
 nd the changing face of the Far East\, across Europe and Great Britain dur
 ing the time of its farthest reach\, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting ge
 nerational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty in his bo
 ok\, The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.
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CATEGORIES:Adult Education,Featured Events
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