With The Sassoons, the Manhattan museum missed an opportunity to look more critically at the family’s opium trade, and to delve into the lives of its women.

In recent months the saga of the Sassoon family has been a hot topic. It was chronicled onscreen in Benediction, a biopic directed by Terence Davies that focuses on the tormented, glamorous life ...

In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries.

The Sassoon family cannot be reduced to a stereotype of wealthy Jewish collectors who assimilated into European culture, nor can they be seen simply as “The Rothschilds of the East ...

The family’s meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall is told in gripping yet meticulous detail by history professor Joseph Sassoon in his new book “The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and ...

David Sassoon, the family patriarch, migrated from Baghdad to Bombay in 1832. In this portrait attributed to William Melville, a British painter in India, he still wears the traditional clothing ...

The Sassoon family's journey to wealth in China began in the 1840s when patriarch David Sassoon, originally from Baghdad, relocated to Bombay. Known for their keen business acumen, the family ...

New Jewish Museum Exhibition Reveals The Fascinating Story Of The Sassoon Family, Opening In March 2023 On view at the Jewish Museum through August 13, 2023.

Claudia Nahson, a curator of a show about the Sassoon family at New York's Jewish Museum, says he saw the codex as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

History Remembered How the Sassoons of Bombay became one of China’s wealthiest families The business family’s willingness to branch out, whether in India or China, reaped it rich rewards.

The Sassoon family dominated the opium trade in China, and the exhibit honoring them displays numerous treasures and artifacts they were able to collect, thanks to their opium-fueled wealth.