Historian Rosemary Wakeman documents the economic transformation of Bombay, London and Shanghai through the life of 20th ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
MUMBAI: One’s entry into Hamilton Studios, in Ballard Estate, is heralded by the tinkle of a string of bells hanging above ...