Sassoon family
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The Sassoon family were a wealthy Baghdadi Jewish dynasty, associated with finance, banking, capital markets, the exploration of oil and gas, Judaism, Conservative politics, opium trading and philanth
Sassoon House, Shanghai, China
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdallah) & Sassoon David
The Sassoon Docks, Mumbai, India
Tomb of David Sassoon, Pune, India
David Sassoon (treasurer)
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David Sassoon was a Baghdadi Jewish merchant and philanthropist in Ottoman Iraq. David Sassoon served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. Fleeing persecution, Sassoon and his family emi
Sassoon family
…Mesopotamian Jewish Sasoons. Sassoon ben Salih (1750–1830) and his family were the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Southern Iraq. His sons David (1792–1864) and Joseph Sassoon (1795–1872) fled from a new and unfriendly wāli, Dawud Pasha. An important Jewish banker named Sassoon was hanged by the…
David Sassoon
Family tree of the Sassoon family