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	David Sassoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, Saleh Sassoon, was a wealthy banker and chief treasurer to the pashas, the governors of Baghdad, from 1781 to 1817.
		In Bombay, David Sassoon established the house of David Sassoon and Co., with branches at Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong.
		David Sassoon was conscious of his role as a leader of the Jewish community in Bombay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Sassoon (582 words)

	Sassoon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sassoon, David (1793-1864), member of a family prominent in international banking circles, who founded a commercial house.
		Sassoon, Sir Albert Abdullah David (1817-1896), member of a family prominent in international banking circles, who became a member of the intimate...
		Sassoon, Vidal, born in 1928, British hairdresser, patronized by pop stars and models.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Sassoon.html (111 words)

	Welcome to The House of Lord
		The Jewish Club and the David Sassoon Library were close to the Synagogue and in the High Holidays especially "Rosh Hashanah" and "Yom Kippur" the entire Synagogue was full up, with extra chairs being placed between benches all around the Synagogue in the men's gallery.
		Magen David Synagogue at Byculla Synagogue was built in 1864 by the late David Sassoon who was the founder of the Sassoon empire in India.
		The Mausoleum of the Late David Sassoon is housed in the precincts of the Synagogue were the Late David Sassoon Lived.
	www.jacobsassoon.org /synagogues.html (664 words)

	Kahal Joseph
		The community was set on a firm foundation by the house of David Sassoon in the second half of the nineteenth century, and by his grandson Jacob Eliyahu Sassoon in the early twentieth century.
		David Sassoon also built an elementary school on one side in the same large compound to provide an education for the community's children in Torah and proper behaviour.
		David Sassoon's grandson, Jacob Sassoon, built the Kneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in the Fort in 1884, in memory of his father Eliyahoo Sassoon (founder of E.D. sassoon and Company).
	www.kahaljoseph.org /memberhistory_india.php (991 words)

	Welcome to The House of Lord
		David Sassoon (1792-1864), the founder of the Sassoon dynasty in India, escaped from the persecution of the Pashas and fled to India in 1828 through Bushire in Iran, along with his father, who died there.
		David Sassoon and his large family of eight children established an international empire of trade and commerce.
		David Sassoon supported scholars and scholarly publications in Pune he built the David Sassoon Hospital, an infirmary and leper asylum, and the Ohel David Synagogue, whose 90 feet spire is a Pune landmark.
	www.jacobsassoon.org /history.html (168 words)

	Counter-Attack: Sassoon's Obituary - Michele Fry
		Sassoon, except in his war poems and a few others, wrote reflectively; he was never tied to contemporary fashion and all his work bears his own special and personal stamp.
		Sassoon's paternal background was complex; his father, Alfred, was a nephew of Reuben Sassoon (perhaps the Prince of Wales's closest friend), and son of Sassoon David Sassoon, who had moved to England in 1858.
		Sassoon was writing poetry throughout his life -- periodically every few years a volume would appear either in a public or a private edition -- but his style altered after the 1914-18 War.
	www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk /sass-obituary.htm (1648 words)

	Knitting Circle Siegfried Sassoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Siegfried Sassoon's paternal grandfather Sassoon David Sassoon was the first of the family to arrive in England in 1858, attracted by the cotton trade.
		In November 1915 both Siegfried Sassoon and David Thomas were posted to C Company of the 1st Battalion and were billeted at the town of Bethune.
		Siegfried Sassoon was treated for shell shock by the army doctor William Halse Rivers who remained a friend after the war and acted as a father-confessor until his death in 1922.
	knittingcircle.org.uk /sassoon.html (5374 words)

	Poets
		Paul Fussell describes David Jones as "that odd, unassignable modern genius, half-English, half-Welsh, at once painter, poet, essayist, and engraver, a prodigy of folklore and liturgy and an adept at myth, ritual, and romance, the turgid allusionist of In Parenthesis" (The Great War and Modern Memory, 144).
		Sassoon went before a medical board and convinced them that he was quite "cured" and ready to return to the Front.
		Sassoon's satiric poetry influenced, among others, Wilfred Owen (with whom he was a patient at Craiglockhart Hospital where the two were convalescing).
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/WWI/poets/poets.html (3364 words)

	The SARS Baghdad Connection
		His son, David Sassoon, who was born in Baghdad in 1792, entered the family business and became very wealthy.
		David Sassoon moved to Bombay in 1832 where he established the house of David Sassoon and Co. with branches in Calcutta, Shanghai, Canton, and Hong Kong.
		The blessing of David Sassoon, a son of Abraham and ruthless tycoon, and the Opium Wars were designed to open China to the gospel.
	www.biblenews1.com /history3/20030503SARS.htm (938 words)

	David Sassoon: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		David Sassoon, the great Merchant Prince of Bombay of those days and the venerable head of the Sassoon family, happily came to the aid of the Mechanics' Institute by presenting Rs.
		David Sassoon, was formally opened on the 24th March 1870 by the then Governor of Bombay Sir Seymour Fitzgerald.
		David Sassoon, his friends and admirers commemorated his many virtues and his public character, by placing at the entrance of the Memorial Hall of the Institute his statue, with the simple inscription, David Sassoon born 1792, died 1864.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Sassoon_David_40212697.htm (311 words)

	The Jews of Kobe
		Rahmo Sassoon, born in Aleppo, Syria in 1912, was responsible for the synagogue.
		Sassoon explained it was because of the anxiety the community felt over the presence of German officers and Japan’s alliance with Germany.
		Later David Sassoon became president of David Sassoon and Co., and served during the postwar period as the biggest supplier to occupation forces.
	xenon.stanford.edu /~tamar/Kobe/Kobe.html (2938 words)

	Opium In China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		David Sassoon (1792-1864), fleeing the oppression of Daud Pasha, the governor of Baghdad, arrived in Bombay in 1832, where, borrowing 10,000 rupees, he went into business manufacturing textiles, and growing and transporting cotton, indigo and opium.
		By 1850, David Sassoon and Co. was on an equal footing with Jardine, Matheson and Co.
		David Sassoon and Co., now in the hands of his heirs and assigns, had taken over 70% of the opium trade, and a number of other Jewish companies had formed.
	www.useless-knowledge.com /1234/jan/article129.html (753 words)

	Hong Kong, the Land Built on Opium
		When Ahmet was overthrown for corruption in 1829, the Sassoons fled to Bombay, India, the strategic trade route to India and gateway to the Far East.
		The Sassoons were now licensing opium dens in each British occupied area with large fees being collected by their Jewish agents.
		All of David Sassoon's fourteen grandsons were made officers during World War One, thus most were able to avoid combat.
	www.biblebelievers.org.au /sassoon.htm (1021 words)

	Jewish Daily Israel Today
		David Sassoon, known as the merchant prince, was forced to flee from his ancestral home in Baghdad in 1829 under the threat of a death sentence imposed by the then Pasha.
		The Jews lived literally in a “welfare state” established by the Sassoons and the many amenities enjoyed by them were provided “on a platter” by the good grace of she Sassoons.
		Communal institutions vital to Jewish life were built by the Sassoons at their own expense with iuhstantial funds provided by them with perpetual maintenance made available free of cost.
	www.gaycourter.com /FIBSargon.htm (1923 words)

	Baghdadi (Iraqi) Synagogues in Bombay and Poona, India
		David Sassoon built fine synagogues in extensive grounds, - the Magen David Synagogue in Byculla, Bombay, and the Ohel David Synagogue, a landmark in Poona, a resort town 120 miles from Bombay.
		This synagogue was built by David Sassoon in 1861 in Byculla, where the family first lived.
		David Sassoon also built an elementary school to one side in the same large compund to provide an education for the community's children in Torah and proper behaviour.
	www.babylonjewry.org.il /new/english/nehardea/10/m1.htm (885 words)

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		The firm, Dave Sassoon and Company was soon involved in to cotton trade and began trading in opium in the early 1830s.
		Like David Sassoon, he had been born in Baghdad and was a brilliant businessman.
		As David Kranzler explains: "The key to the distinction between the Japanese and European form of anti-semitism seems to lie in the long Christian tradition of identifying the Jew with the Devil, the Antichrist or someone otherwise beyond redemption....
	www.dangoor.com /issue76/articles/76096.htm (1807 words)

	HADASSAH MAGAZINE
		In 1832, Sassoon settled in Bombay and began a commercial and philanthropic dynasty that drew Jews from throughout the Ottoman Empire.
		The Sassoon Docks are still used to bring in fresh fish; the Bank of India was founded by Sassoon David [sic], who was also a mayor of Bombay.
		Sassoon died in Pune in 1864; his marble tomb is housed in a mausoleum in the courtyard.
	www.hadassah.org /news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2000/Feb/travel.htm (1956 words)

	Indo-Israel friendship poised for greater heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eminent in Mumbai - David Sassoon himself had to flee Baghdad in 1826 from the oppression of the Governor and Wali of Baghdad.
		David Sassoon also built an elementary school on one side in the same large compound to provide education for the community's children in Torah.
		David Joseph Ezra is associated with some of the city's most imposing buildings - Esplanade mansions, Ezra mansions and Chowringhee mansions as well as Ezra street.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0902/40.html (3118 words)

	Poona
		Gandhiji was operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona on January 12, 1924.
		David Sassoon was one of these to leave Baghdad in 1826.
		Sassoon died in 1864 in Poona and is buried the synagogue grounds in a fine mausoleum.
	www.spiritualjourneys.net /Venues/Poona.htm (464 words)

	"The Last Jews in India and Burma" by Nathan Katz and Ellen S. Goldberg
		However, it was the arrival of the Baghdadi merchant, industrialist and financier David Sassoon (1792-1864) in 1833 that heralded the remarkable sojourn of the Baghdadi Jewish community of Bombay.
		The Sassoon family, "the Rothschilds of the East," played a major role in the industrialization of Bombay, and Jews provided the city with three of its mayors, professors in its university and producers and stars for its film industry.
		The best-known landmark in Puna is the 90-foot tower of the red brick Ohel David Synagogue (1863), known locally as Lal Deval, "red temple." Sassoon's impressive mausoleum is found in the synagogue's courtyard.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/jl101.htm (4205 words)

	Bellville Sassoon
		David Sassoon (born 1932) joined her straight from the Royal College of Art in 1958.
		After Belinda Bellville's retirement in 1981, David Sassoon took over the company and was joined by Lorcan Mullany (born 1953) in 1987.
		For Sassoon, the biggest revolution during his career is that ther are no long rituals, no rules for dressing up, that all went in the 70's.
	www.designerhistory.com /historyofashion/bellville.html (317 words)

	David Sassoon Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The David Sassoon Library is the name of a famous library and heritage structure in Mumbai, India.
		The idea of a library to be situated in the center of the city was the brainchild of Albert Sassoon, son of the famous Baghdadi Jew philanthropist, David Sassoon.
		Above the entrance portico is a white stone bust of David Sassoon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Sassoon_Library (158 words)

	Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Opium Wars and the Jew behind it
		David Sassoon was born in Baghdad, Iran in 1792.
		BTW, David Sassoon is regarded as a philanthropist in Bombay.
		I never said Sassoon was free of guilt, I said he wasn't guilty of starting the Opium Wars (Matheson and Jardine are perpetrators), which is specifically the crime you accuse Sassoon of.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t81344.html (8810 words)

	The House of Rachel
		Patriarch David Sassoon opened a branch of the Sassoon Trading Company in Shanghai in 1845, hoping to get a piece of the lucrative opium trade, and both Silas Hardoon and Ellis Kadoorie first worked for the Sassoon Company when they arrived in Shanghai.
		There, they were great benefactors: David Sassoon established the Ohel David Synagogue in Poona and the Sassoon hospitals; Jacob Sassoon, his grandson, established the Magen David Synagogue in Mumbai and an elementary school that later became the Sir Jacob Sassoon Free High School.
		Their generosity was not limited to India: in Hong Kong, where David Sassoon first set up a branch in 1844, Jacob Sassoon built the Ohel Leah Synagogue, today the oldest surviving synagogue in Asia, in memory of his mother, Leah Sassoon.
	www.haruth.com /house_of_rachel.htm (954 words)

	Page Title
		Sassoons in India and the employment opportunities and community facilities they afforded the co-religionists from their country of birth.
		For many years, David Sassoon was the sole owner of the firm.
		The Sassoon family in Bombay was growing rapidly, with new children by Dawid Sasson's second wife, and grandchildren through his first.
	www.midrash.org /babylonian/newsletters/archive14/page3.html (709 words)

	Asian Notes
		ORT India has produced a nineteen-minute documentary on the life of 19th-century philanthropist David Sassoon, drawing attention to a number of important Jewish sites in Bombay and Pune with which he was associated.
		Sassoon donated funds for the construction of the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune which, today, is a large teaching hospital connected to the B.J. Medical College.
		The premier show of this documentary film was held on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary celebration of the David Sassoon Library and Reading Room on November 30, 1996 at Rang Bhavan, Bombay, in the presence of over 2000 people.
	www.isjm.org /jhr/no2/asian.htm (684 words)

	Burson-Marsteller Strengthens U.S. Healthcare Practice with 3 New Senior-Level Hires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sassoon represents the third senior hire for Burson-Marsteller's healthcare practice in the last few months, reflecting the company's commitment to continued investment in the flourishing practice area.
		"David's focus on client service and deep knowledge of our clients' business needs is consistent with the type of focus that has driven robust growth in our healthcare practice over the past two years," said Ame Wadler, Chairman of Burson-Marsteller's US Healthcare Practice.
		David Sassoon moves to Burson-Marsteller from Rowland Communications Worldwide, where he served as senior counselor to a major medical device company, helping to conceive, develop and implement a worldwide public relations program for the first time in the company's history.
	www.bm.com /pages/news/releases/2003/press-01-31-2003 (1630 words)

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