Lyn Julius
The Sassoons: Part 1
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Summary
This multi-part presentation will explore the lives of the Sassoon family, a wealthy Baghdadi Jewish dynasty. Part 1 will examine the family’s extraordinary 19th-century commercial enterprise that stretched from India to China. We will also look at Sir Victor Sassoon—daredevil, dashing and debonaire—who managed the Shanghai branch of the business and helped refugees fleeing Nazism.
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.