GRGR(4) Siegfried Sassoon WAS Re: grgr4 Proof of the pudding (was Re: GRGR(4): Episode 12

[Doug Millison]

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/8608/ is the url of a brief
biography, which contains very little information about Sassoon's family
predecessors.

At 9:06 PM -0400 6/21/99, DudiousMax at aol.com wrote:
>To Those Who Know,
>                And those who might not.  The Sasoon family were very wealthy
>Jews who arose during the 19th century and came to be known as "The
>Rothschilds of the East."  They were originally Persian (I think), and grew
>in influence to have brokerages in (From memory) Baghdad, Bombay, Shanghai,
>Yokohama, and probably more I can't remember.  They were allied in many
>instances with the Rothschilds, who together were called "The International
>Jewish Bankers' Conspiracy."  They have a long and colorful history.  IMHO,
>when Pynchon mentions the poet Siegfried Sassoon, not only does he put "in
>play" the guy's personal history, pacifism, but also his family history for
>the hundred and some years before his birth, and its role in the
>anti-semitism that was central to WWII.  You know the difference between
>Jewish Alzheimer's disease and everybody else's?  The Jews forget
>everything... but the Holocaust.  Joke.  Dark.  But Joke, nonetheless.
>                          Max


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