香港犹太社团的形成和发展香港犹太社团是伴随着鸦片战争后英国对中国的商业扩张而形成的,其标志便是英籍塞法迪犹商集团在港岛的兴起。1841年,塞法迪犹商沙逊集团的沙逊洋行(David Sassoon and Sons Company)在香港建立第一个办事处。沙逊家属租籍巴格达,后发展到孟买。英国政府1834年废止东印度公司的对华贸易专利 The Formation and Development of Jewish Societies in Hong Kong The Jewish community in Hong Kong was formed following the British expansion of China in the wake of the Opium War. The symbol of this is the rise of the British Cendhye Jewish community on Hong Kong Island. In 1841, the Sassoon-Sassoon and Sons Company set up their first office in Hong Kong. Sassoon’s dependents belonged to Baghdad and later developed into Mumbai. The British government in 1834 abolished the East India Company’s trade patent with China