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The Sassoon’s: Global Merchants

Michele McAloon Season 1 Episode 78

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The Sassoon family was one of the richest families in the world in the 19th century, From a Baghdadi Jewish community to the dizzying heights of British aristocracy the Sassoons were an economic success story  mirroring the fortunes of colonial Britian. Join me in conversation with Joseph Sassoon, author of The Sassoons: The Great Globbal Merchants and the Making of an Empire  published by Pantheon Books.