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 a small alcove, Rachel Sassoon Beer (1858–1927) takes the stage, the first of many strong Sassoon women. An ethereal 1887 portrait of her by Henry Jones Thaddeus hangs at the center.

In 'Sassoon,' Prof. Joseph Sassoon tells how his distant family of Baghdadi Jews fled to India and built an empire on the legal narcotics trade, hobnobbing with the British royals ...

In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries. By Adam Rathe When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

The exhibition narrative begins in the early 1830s when David Sassoon, the patriarch of the family, was forced to leave his native Baghdad due to the increasing persecution of the city's Jewish ...

T he 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 ...

The Sassoon family is having a moment. The Baghdadi Jewish dynasty that made its fortune in trade across the Indian subcontinent and East Asia is the subject of the current exhibit at the Jewish ...

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 ties to China were long and complicated. After Britain forced the flow of opium into China in the 19th century, during what are known as the Opium Wars, ...

Victor Sassoon, who did not have children, passed away at the age of 79 in 1961, with the family fortune secure. The Sassoon House, like other buildings on Shanghai’s Bund, has been tastefully ...

Sassoon paid 350 British pounds for it - around $22,000 today - which is also about $29 million below Sotheby's current asking price. The high price could mean it ends up back in a private collection.