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ICYMI: The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’ 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 (www.timesofisrael.com)
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The rise and fall of the opium-fueled Sassoon dynasty, the ‘Rothschilds of the East’
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
www.timesofisrael.com
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