Lyn Julius
The Sassoons: Part 2
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Summary
This multi-part presentation will explore the lives of the Sassoon family, a wealthy Baghdadi Jewish dynasty. In Part 1, we looked at how Sir Victor Sassoon developed a flourishing business in Shanghai as part of the Sassoons’ remarkable 19th-century global trading network. Part 2 will focus on the Sassoons’ rivals, the Kadoories, who are still in business in the Far East, and tells the extraordinary story of Silas Aaron Hardoon.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (www.harif.org). Lyn blogs daily at Point of No Return (www.jewishrefugees.org.uk). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, Jewish News, and Jerusalem Post. She has a regular column in the Times of Israel and JNS News. Her book Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight has been translated in to Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic, and a Hebrew version is in progress.