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The David Sassoon Library and Reading Room is a famous library and heritage structure in Mumbai, India. The idea for a library to be situated in the center of the city came from Albert Sassoon , son of the famous Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist, David Sassoon .
The Sassoon Docks (built by his son) and the David Sassoon Library are named after him. [5] David Sassoon died in his country house in Pune in 1864 and was buried in a mausoleum at the Ohel David Synagogue. His business interests were inherited by his son Sir Albert Sassoon; Elias David had established a rival
Sassoon travelled extensively with the sole intent of collecting Hebrew books and manuscripts which he later catalogued in a two-volume book, entitled, Ohel David.The importance of his private collection of books and manuscripts cannot be overestimated, since it affords scholars the opportunity to examine some twenty-four distinct liturgical rites used by the different Jewish communities of ...
The twentieth-century English poet, one of the best known World War I poets, Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) was David's great-grandson. [6] James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon. James Sassoon, Baron Sassoon, born as James Meyer, is a British banker and former Treasury's commercial secretary. James was mentioned in the Paradise Papers as one of the ...
Solomon David Sassoon built a library in Letchworth, England, to house his father's collections of Jewish manuscripts and incunabula. Some of these holdings were later auctioned by Sotheby's of London in Zurich and in New York, between 1975 and 1994, in order to satisfy the Sassoon estate's British tax obligations. [3]
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'Kala Ghoda signage' Kala Ghoda (IPA:Kāḷā Ghōḍālit. ' Black Horse ') is a crescent-shaped art district/neighborhood in Mumbai, India. [1] It hosts several of the city's heritage buildings including museums, art galleries and educational institutions like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Jehangir Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and The Arts Trust ...
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