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 ...

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’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 ...

"Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann (The old Jew, he is the man)." So said German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck about British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, in reference to who was the center of ...

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 ...

Poor old Disraeli. There he is, dead all these years – idolised and venerated for more than a century – and now this! Most of us would instinctively name Benjamin Disraeli as one of the greatest Prime ...

SOMEWHERE in the course of his infinite gossip, Augustus J. C. Hare tells of a dinner at which one of the guests spoke of Disraeli as ‘that old Jew gentleman who is sitting on the top of chaos.’ The ...

MECHANICAL biography accumulates materials. The biographer of this sort gathers, often with patience and immense industry, facts and documents from everywhere, piles them together in loose ...

Former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd has been shortlisted for a prestigious book prize for his biography of former Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The book, co-written with David ...

This is a fabulous book, as if Jane Austen were writing for a modern newspaper. It tells the story of the remarkable private life of a Prime Minister and his wife. Instead of hacked voicemails, it ...