";s:4:"text";s:2106:" From a collection of excerpts, beginning with Shanghai: City for Sale, ps. 6-7, published in 1940 by Harcourt-Brace & Co., ... 1843–1933 Cornell University Press 2007 Solomon David Sassoon. Drawing by David Sassoon, design for an evening dress for Bellville Sassoon winter season 1964-5, ca. It gave me immense pleasure when I saw that David Sassoon Library and Reading Room is one of the 62 libraries listed as “World’s Most Beautiful Libraries” on internet. The Sassoon Docks (built by his son) and the David Sassoon Library are named after him. He also built a synagogue in Byculla. T he Chinese opium trade of the 19th Century was instrumental to the early incarnation of the global Crime Syndicate and put it into high gear. It was just the right degree of exploitative criminality, deep-state intelligence and enormous looting to launch, enrich and link the progenitors of today’s system. InsideClimate News (757 words) ... most notable among them are David Sassoon library, Bombay House and the Western Railway building at Churchgate. Museum Number E.638-2014. Unlike his brothers, he was a bookish young man, with no particular interest in business, preferring the quiet country life of an English gentleman at Ashley Park, his estate in Surrey. In the case of Hebrew Bibles, one of the more conventional Hebrew books, there may even be more ... and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library, London, comp. The Library is a unique institution which has started since the advent of civilisation. Sassoon David Sassoon (1832-1867) did what his father had told him to do, but without any enthusiasm.