RARE monograph on the Amzalak family, tracing each generation of this influential family and outlining the general frameworks of the middle eastern entrepreneur class, the Sephardi elite and political developments in the Ottoman empire and Palestine. 240x170mm. 202 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Jacket edges slightly wrinkled. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare family biography, of interest to any serious scholar of the social processes in 19th-century Palestine and the Middle East, and Sephardi entrepreneurial class, is in good condition.