The Sassoon Family Collection

Click Here to read: The Sassoon Family Collection: A Sotheby’s curator describes an important sale of Judaica from ‘The Rothschilds of the East,’ who dominated the opium and cotton trades in the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan BY Shaul Swidler-Feller on the Tablet website on December 14, 2020.
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons w:Elias David Sassoon, w:Albert Abdallah David Sassoon & w:Sassoon David Sassoon. Image: Unknown photographer, mid-19th century.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew

Click Here to Read: A Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew: Novelist and critic Clive James and theater director Jonathan Miller, who died within days of each other this fall, shared breadth of passions and influential cultural positions. One was Jewish. The other was not—but he understood Jews better by Howard Jacobson on the Tablet Website on December 11, 2020. 

Jonathan Miller appearing on “After Dark” Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.  Clive James and Nefertiti in the Flak      Tower.