Interview: A Baghdadi Woman of Virtue, from Bombay to London

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This month, Sephardi Ideas Monthly explores Flora Sassoon’s many-sided life and personality by giving the stage to Dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands and author of numerous publications, including Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism (Brill, 2021). Goldstein-Sabbah is currently writing a book on Sassoon as part of a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project called Optimizing Orientalism: Rethinking the Global Jewish Elite, and she generously set aside time to thoughtfully answer SIM’s questions about Sassoon.