Benjamin Disraeli: The Fabricated Jew in Myth and Memory [Hardcover]

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.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.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.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. 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.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.Benjamin Disraeli utilizes plă9