Intrigue and Revolution. Chief Rabbis in Aleppo, Baghdad and Damascus 1744–1914, by Yaron Harel: English translation from the Hebrew original by Yehonatan Chipman, Oxford, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation, 2015, 380 pp., £35 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-904113-87-4. Issue 2 (3rd March 2016) - Gubbay, Lucien