Podcast: In the life and times of Victor Sassoon, an uncanny resemblance to today’s world in flux
Historian Rosemary Wakeman documents the economic transformation of Bombay, London and Shanghai through the life of 20th ...
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Kate Middleton’s woes cast a spotlight on Jewish Sassoon family’s Chinese history
Victor Sassoon, who lived from 1881 to 1961, shifted much of the family’s wealth to Shanghai, where he was both crucial to the city’s modern development and to its role as a haven for Jews ...
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Meet Indian family, who became one of China's richest families in 19th century, their name is..
In the 1920s, Victor Sassoon, the nephew of Jacob Sassoon, assumed leadership of the family empire. A British baronet and savvy businessman, Victor continued to expand the family's interests in ...
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FOREIGN TRADE: Sassoon Again
Last week the richest man in Shanghai arrived in San Francisco. World-traveling Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon is the Naples-born great-grandson of a Bagdad Jew who moved to Bombay and got rich in the ...