Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Nineteenth Century Backgrounds: Victorian Religion; Victorian "Others"; Race in Victorian England Chapter 3 The Jewish Community in the Age of Disraeli: The Origins and Development of the Jewish Community; Jewish Otherness and Englishness; The Missionary Challenge; Jewish Disabilities; Jews and Politics; Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism Chapter 4 "Youth is a Blunder: Manhood is a Struggle: Old Age is a Regret:" Youth is a Blunder: Baptism; Disraeli's Jewishness; Romantic Notions of a Restored Zion; Manhood is a Struggle: Disraeli and the Jewish Community; Disraeli's Racial Judaism; Disraeli' Chapter 5 Life After Death: Eulogies and Memorials; Bringing Disraeli into the Jewish Fold; The Disraeli Centenary; The Beaconsfield Jubilee and other Milestones; Disraeli as a Role Model in Juvenile Literature and Popular History; Disraeli in Fiction and the Chapter 6 The Use and Abuse of Disraeli's Legacy: "All is Race"; Disraeli: The Proto-Zionist; The New Anti-Semitism; The Protocols of the Elders of Zion; The 1930s: Disraeli and the Rise of the Nazi Party; Disraeli: Ethnic Cheerleading and Anti-Defamati Chapter 7 Conclusions Chapter 8 Bibliography Chapter 9 Chronology of Benjamin Disraeli Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author

About the Author

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

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.
*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.
*Conservative Judaism*