‘The Sassoons’ Summons a Golden Age

The show, at The Jewish Museum, ranges from scrolls to Sargent.

Private collection via The Jewish Museum
'The Drawing Room at 25 Park Lane'. William Orpen, 1913. Private collection via The Jewish Museum

To walk into “The Sassoons” at the Jewish Museum is to time travel to an age when Jews from Baghdad traded opium at Beijing and bolts of cotton from Mumbai. At its heart is a family that mixed religious awe and fabulous wealth, abundance alchemized into art. They journeyed from the Tigris to the Thames, and went from servants of pashas to intimates of kings. They married Rothschilds and wrote immortal verse before fading away. Here, they shine.

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