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The book deals with the history of the Jews in Baghdad, from the first mention of the place in the Talmud until recent times.

The book deals with the history of the Jews in Baghdad, from the first mention of the place in the Talmud until recent times. The History of the Jews in Baghdad Paperback – November 15, 2006. by David Sassoon (Author).

The book deals with the history of the Jews in Baghdad . The author an eminent scholar, who worked with untiring zeal collecting documents on Jewish history and building up the famous Sassoon collection of manuscripts at Oxford University

The book deals with the history of the Jews in Baghdad . The author an eminent scholar, who worked with untiring zeal collecting documents on Jewish history and building up the famous Sassoon collection of manuscripts at Oxford University. We are fortunate to have a short history of the Jews in Baghdad from his pen, a milestone book which laid the foundation stone for future writers on the subject.

The History of the Jews in Baghdad. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Published by Simon Wallenburg Press (2006). ISBN 10: 184356002X ISBN 13: 9781843560029.

October 1792 Baghdad, Ottoman Iraq. David Sassoon was conscious of his role as a leader of the Jewish community in Mumbai. November 7, 1864 (aged 72) Poona, British India. Treasurer of Baghdad, businessman. David Sassoon, as an Orthodox Jew, continued his Jewish religious observances, observing the Jewish Sabbath throughout his busy life. He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of the time. He built one of the largest and most beautiful synagogues of India, the Magen David synagogue at Byculla, Bombay. He helped to arouse a sense of Jewish identity amongst the Bene Israeli and Cochin Jewish communities.

Your name Please enter your name. A History of the Jews in Baghdad. By the late David Solomon Sassoon. pp. 217. Rosenthal, Lt. Oxford, 1949.

Why have I written a history of the Jews? There are four reasons. The first is sheer curiosity

Why have I written a history of the Jews? There are four reasons. The first is sheer curiosity. When I was working on my History of Christianity, I became aware for the first time in my life of the magnitude of the debt Christianity owes to Judaism. The first five books of the Bible, or pentateuch, were now presented as orally transmitted legend from various Hebrew tribes which reached written form only after the Exile, in the second half of the first millennium BC.

Sassoon, David Solomon. A History of the Jews in Baghdad AMS Press: New York. Stillman, Norman A. The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times The Jewish Publication Society: Philadelphia. The Lure of Zion Al Saqi Books: London. Iraqi Politics 1921–1941 LAAM Limited: London.

In Jewish history books, David Sassoon, an observant Jew, is remembered mostly for his philanthropy. On November 7, 1864, businessman David Sassoon, founding father of the Sassoon business dynasty, died in Pune, India. The trading empire he created spanned the globe, from what is now Mumbai on the western coast of India, via Shanghai and Hong Kong in China, all the way to London, England. It dominated world commerce in a number of commodities – most significantly opium – over the second half of the 19th century. 1916: Barbie's mother is born.

Not to be confused with Baghdadi Jews – Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, as well as Jews from Syrian and Yemenite origin who settled on trade routes, in South and Southeast Asia as well as the west, and formed immigrant communitie.

Not to be confused with Baghdadi Jews – Jewish emigrants from Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, as well as Jews from Syrian and Yemenite origin who settled on trade routes, in South and Southeast Asia as well as the west, and formed immigrant communities. According to Arab tradition, the town of Baghdad was founded in the middle of the eighth century by the Abbassid calif Al-Mansur.

David Sasson has been memorably and accurately described as "the greatest Drugs Kingpin in the history of the world" but official histories do their level best to obfuscate his dominant involvement in the opium trade which was the major so. .

David Sasson has been memorably and accurately described as "the greatest Drugs Kingpin in the history of the world" but official histories do their level best to obfuscate his dominant involvement in the opium trade which was the major source of his wealth. Sassoon was a pivotal figure in both the trading regime of the British Raj and British Subjugation of China in the first "Opium War" of 1839-41, but in spite of this, he does not have an entry in Encyclopedia Britannica.