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    Wheel of fortune How did the wealthy and powerful trading family behind the first truly global business slip into obscurity?

    Mar 04, 2022 1 minute
    By Kathryn Hughes

    y the end of the 19th century, the Sassoon family were regularly referred to as “the Rothschilds of the East”. This wasn’t just lazy, it was wrong. For one thing

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