Helen Fry in Conversation 2023 Season

Helen Fry in Conversation with Joseph Sassoon on The Global Merchants
The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

As a Baghdad teenager, Joseph Sassoon was “totally uninterested” in the family stories his father wanted to tell him. It’s all the more extraordinary then, that as a present-day economic historian, Professor Joseph Sassoon has produced a sweeping account of part of his remarkable family, once hailed as “The Rothschilds of the East”.

In the series:

Jan. 8, 2023: Michael Smith on the UK – US intelligence relationship
Jan. 29, 2023: Sigmund Freud’s Family and Escape from Vienna
Feb. 5, 2023: Clare Mulley on the Women Who Flew For Hitler
Feb. 12, 2023: Joseph Sassoon on The Global Merchants
April 2, 2023: Susan Ronald on Hitler’s Aristocrats