[Vwoolf] WHS Webinar 5/8 - "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire"—in the light of Virginia Woolf and Siegfried Sassoon….

Thu May 4 04:35:17 EDT 2023

Sybil Sassoon (1894–1989), the only daughter of Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, 2nd Baronet (1856–1912), became Countess of Rocksavage on her marriage in 1913, and Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1923.

The Countess of Rocksavage is not a long way from the Countess of Rocksbier in “Jacob’s Room”.

Stuart

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In fact the connection with Philip is very slight and the mention of it in the press had it wrong. VW and Philip Sassoon met, of course, at a lunch at Lady Colefax’s and she described him in a letter to Vanessa as an underbred Whitechapel Jew 
In fact the connection with Philip is very slight and the mention of it in the press had it wrong. VW and Philip Sassoon met, of course, at a lunch at Lady Colefax’s and she described him in a letter to Vanessa as an underbred Whitechapel Jew which couldn’t be further from the truth: he was an overbred West End Jew who had probably rarely been to Whitechapel. After the lunch, he sent her a copy of his book, The Third Route, inscribed to Miss Virginia Woolfe! In terms of Bloomsbury he entertained Lytton Strachey several times at his country house Port Lympne although he had mixed feelings about Eminent Victorians. VW might well have liked his sister Sybil, the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, but as far as I know they never met. I haven’t looked into it but I don’t know what thoughts and contacts VW might have had with Siegfried. If anyone wants to know more about Philip and Sybil they could look into my Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (Yale, 2003) as well as a biography of Philip by Damian Collins. My best, Peter

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In light of the current exhibition on the Sassoons and interest in Virginia Woolf and the Sassoons, my husband and I thought that there might be others who would benefit from this webinar.  

Click the link if you want to be included.

Stay safe, etc….

Karen Levenback 

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  You probably got this, but may interest the Woolf list. Love, M

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  Please join us for a Washington History Seminar webcast on "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" by Joseph Sassoon. 

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                         History and Public Policy Program 

                          LIVE WEBCAST | UPCOMING EVENT
                          The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire 

                          Monday
                          May. 8, 2023
                          4:00pm – 5:30pm ET
                          Online Only

              A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives.

              The influential merchants of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the globalization of today. The Sassoons, a Baghdadi-Jewish trading family, built a global trading enterprise by taking advantage of major historical developments during the nineteenth century. Their story is not just one of an Arab Jewish family that settled in India, traded in China, and aspired to be British. It also presents an extraordinary vista into the world in which they lived and prospered economically, politically, and socially.

              The book is not only about their rise, but also about their decline: why it happened, how political and economic changes after the First World War adversely affected them, and finally, how realizing their aspirations to reach the upper echelons of British society led to their disengagement from business and prevented them from adapting to the new economic and political world order.

              Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and holds the al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy of the Arab World. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he also completed his PhD. Professor Sassoon, whose research focuses on political economy, economic history, Iraq, Iraqi refugees, and authoritarianism, has published extensively and is the author of five books. His most recent book, The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire, was published in the United States by Pantheon Books (2022) and in the UK by Allen Lane under the title The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty (2022).

        Speaker
                                Joseph Sassoon
                                Former Fellow;
                                Professor, Georgetown University

        Panelists
                                Rebecca Kobrin
                                Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia University

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