Joseph Sassoon | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire - a podcast by Free Library of Philadelphia

Watch the videohere.''A marvelous epitaph to a monumental family, makers of several worlds and keepers of none''(The Wall Street Journal),Joseph Sassoon's eponymous historical volumeThe Sassoonscharts the remarkable 19th-century rise and 20th-century fall of his illustrious ancestors. During the 19th century, the Sassoon family, once known as''the Rothschilds of the East,''built a global empire based on shipping, opium, and banking, but experienced the loss of its dynastic fortunes during the 20th century. A professor of history and politics at Georgetown University, Sassoon is also a senior associate member at St. Antony's College, Oxford and a trustee of the Bodleian Library. His other books include the prize-winning Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party, The Iraqi Refugees, and The Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics.Because you love Author Events, please make adonationto keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU!(recorded 11/2/2023)

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