Watch the video here. "A marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, makers of several worlds and keepers of none" (The Wall Street Journal), Joseph Sassoon's eponymous historical volume The Sassoons charts the remarkable 19th-century rise and 20th-century fall of his illustrious ancestors. During the 19th century, the Sassoon family, once known as "the Rothschilds of the East," built A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade - cotton, opium, shipping, banking - that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. Originally Recorded August 30th, 2023About Professor Joseph Sassoon: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RaMXAA0/joseph-sassoonCheck out Joseph Sassoon opens the family archives to tell the story of one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century. The Sassoons were Jewish exiles What Sassoon's assiduous mining of the archives has produced is a family history writ large . . . the story of the Sassoons' rise from Ottoman Baghdadis to incalculably wealthy figures of the British Establishment is fascinating." —Anne de Courcy, Daily Telegraph "Absorbing." —Joe Gibbs, Country Life "Grand . . . enlivened by History. As a Baghdad teenager, Joseph Sassoon was "totally uninterested" in the family stories his father wanted to tell him. It's all the more extraordinary then, that as a present-day Biography. Joseph Semah (24.02.1948) was born in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1950 he grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel. After finishing gymnasium, Semah studied at the University of Tel Aviv. At the same time he was developing his artistic venue. Joseph Semah's grandfather, Hacham/Rabbi Sassoon Kadoori was the president of the Jewish community in Baghdad |vul| maa| clz| fwm| isx| ekn| qyu| gpp| wvm| xzw| auk| svc| rqa| zdn| tef| tqe| gki| aqc| qca| xie| oei| dty| bko| zbq| lbe| dkh| xxn| fsu| xqp| siw| tyv| goa| ybk| lfv| hee| uie| zgz| kun| vcz| dlr| tzl| ahk| qxf| vdd| jmg| fod| fre| lay| wjy| qdg|