The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

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The Sassoons and the Kadoories–two Jewish families from Baghdad–had long been successful in business, politics, and society. They kept up their intrigues and opium smuggling while helping to rescue 18,000 Jews from Hitler’s Europe, and though they soon faced the tsunami that was communism, their legacy remains today.

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