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Wealth, influence and the global elite
Listen to the episodeA historian charts how his ancestors — Jewish refugee exiles from Ottoman Baghdad — built a vast commercial empire across the world, earning the Sassoon family the title 'the Rothschilds of the East', and how their rise and fall mirrored the British imperial project.
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