Benjamin Disraeli
Bernard Glassman
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Description for Benjamin Disraeli
hardcover. Series: Studies in Judaism. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 431.
This book utilizes previously ignored or little known sources to provide new insights into how one of the most famous Jewish converts was viewed by the Jewish community he ignored and by the larger Christian world that would not accept him. Although Benjamin Disraeli was baptized prior to his thirteenth birthday, he could not escape his origins. Labeled as a 'Jew Scamp' by his detractors when he entered the political arena, he exploited his background to demonstrate the nobility of his ancient race and the superiority of his ancestral origins over those of his opponents. Rather than deny his roots, ... Read more
This book utilizes previously ignored or little known sources to provide new insights into how one of the most famous Jewish converts was viewed by the Jewish community he ignored and by the larger Christian world that would not accept him. Although Benjamin Disraeli was baptized prior to his thirteenth birthday, he could not escape his origins. Labeled as a 'Jew Scamp' by his detractors when he entered the political arena, he exploited his background to demonstrate the nobility of his ancient race and the superiority of his ancestral origins over those of his opponents. Rather than deny his roots, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Judaism
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761824725
SKU
V9780761824725
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About Bernard Glassman
Bernard Glassman is Visiting Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and Book Review Editor for Conservative Judaism Quarterly. He is researching Anglo-Jewish history at Harvard University.
Reviews for Benjamin Disraeli
Dr. Glassman's is an imaginatively researched and engagingly readable account of one of the most complexly overdetermined cultural constructions in modern Jewish history- Benjamin Disraeli. . . Dr. Glassman here enters exciting and often bizarre territory, and makes a significant contribution not only to the study of anti-Semitism and Victorian Jewry, but to an understanding of the uses and processes- ... Read more