Benjamin Disraeli’s Jewishness has been a problem for his biographers, especially his English biographers. Robert Blake’s classic study (1966) — still the hallmark account of Disraeli’s political ...

Adam Kirsch, “Benjamin Disraeli” (Nextbook: Schocken, 2008 ) $21.00. Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but (mostly) considered himself to be Jewish. He famously proclaimed to Queen ...

Ed Miliband delivered a panegyric to Benjamin Disraeli at the Labour party conference in 2012; afterwards, John Prescott was asked for his views. "Who the hell is Disraeli?" he (mischievously) replied ...

Benjamin Disraeli remains an extraordinarily modern figure, a source of perennial fascination. His seductive “one nation” rhetoric has been appropriated by Ed Miliband’s Labour opposition. His third ...

To appreciate quite what an astonishing achievement it was for Benjamin Disraeli to become a Tory prime minister in the most buttoned-up, snobbish and race-conscious era of British history, one only ...

Disraeli: the Novel Politician by David Cesarani reveals the complex identity of the Tory icon. By Michael Howard David Cesarani, who died last year at the tragically early age of 58, was one of the ...

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