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26 Nov

The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’

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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

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