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 morethe selectivity and transmutations- memory, mythopoeia and popular historiography.
Dr. Andrew Horn, Fellow of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University; formerly University Chair of Literature and Language, University of t Students of modern Jewish historiography are in Bernard Glassman's debt for the other illuminating feature of this work: his tracing the imaginary legacy and idealized image of Benjamin Disraeli born following his death.
Harvey Meirovich
Conservative Judaism
Having found a trove of material about the place of Benjamin Disraeli in the popular imagination, Bernard Glassman tell the intriguing story of how British Jewry came to celebrate the achievements of this former Jew turned Anglican as the highest expression of the Jewish spirit.
Dr. Todd Endelman, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan Having found a trove of material about the place of Benjamin Disraeli in the popular imagination, Bernard Glassman tell the intriguing story of how British Jewry came to celebrate the achievements of this former Jew turned Anglican as the highest expression of the Jewish spirit.
Dr. Todd Endelman, William Haber Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Michigan 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- the selectivity and transmutations- memory, mythopoeia and popular historiography.
Dr. Andrew Horn, Fellow of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute, Harvard University; formerly University Chair of Literature and Language, University of t Students of modern Jewish historiography are in Bernard Glassman's debt for the other illuminating feature of this work: his tracing the imaginary legacy and idealized image of Benjamin Disraeli born following his death.
Harvey Meirovich
Conservative Judaism
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