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6. Juli 2023 · In the 19th century, readers at Mumbai’s David Sassoon Library browsed through a rich collection of books in a regal setting: built in the Victorian Gothic style, the library and reading room boasted quaint arches, louvred windows, Minton tiles and lamps. In present times, the vista from its first-storey veranda may be vastly different, but purposeful interventions have ensured the appeal of ...
Sassoon was born in August 1832 in Bombay, India. [1] [2] He was a member of the Sassoon family.His father was David Sassoon (1792–1864), a leading trader of cotton and opium who served as the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829, and his mother was Farha Hayim of Baghdad. [1]
17. Nov. 2022 · 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 population. Establishing himself in Mumbai (then Bombay) and initially involved in the cotton trade, his vision led the family from Iraq to India ...
6. Okt. 2022 · David Sassoon (seated) with his sons Elias David Sassoon (left), Albert Abdallah David Sassoon (middle) and Sassoon David Sassoon (right), 1850 | Wikimedia Working with this material, the author begins in Ottoman Baghdad, when, in the 1810s and 1820s, political machinations prompted the dispersal of the city’s powerful and wealthy Jewish community.
22. Juli 2022 · In 1845, David Sassoon set up a David Sassoon & Sons branch in the city, making it one of the first Jewish trading firms to enter China. At first, the company primarily trafficked in opium and English textiles, but David Sassoon soon turned his sights to finance. In August 1864, he co-founded, along with representatives of other key foreign firms in the region, the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ...
23. Okt. 2023 · Posing as a multimillionaire, David Sassoon managed to host lavish receptions for ambassadors in Athens while having been repeatedly imprisoned in the United States and the United Kingdom for multiple criminal offenses. Kathimerini presents his story, which reads like a screenplay for a dramatic thriller.
28. Okt. 2023 · Un retrato de David Sassoon en la exposición The Glamour of Bellville Sassoon en el Museo de la Moda y el Textil de Londres, en 2013. La exposición iba acompañada de un libro del mismo nombre.
