Excerpt From Summary of Jonathan Kaufman's The Last Kings of Shanghai
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The flight of David Sassoon was different from other Jewish exiles. For more than a thousand years, Jews had thrived in Baghdad, known in the Bible as Babylon.
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The Jewish community in Babylon thrived under the leadership of the Sassoons. They became one of the richest families in Baghdad, and their economic empire stretched across the Middle East and Asia.
