Isaac d'ISRAELI and Scott

Ogden, James

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“…If this analysis of the origins of the anonymous Sequel is correct, it has implications for understanding Isaac D'Israeli as well as his children. It would appear that Isaac did not abandon his literary work during his final years in Bradenham, as often claimed, 30 despite the 'paralysis of the optic nerve' by which he was handicapped from 1839, 31 but that in old age he became increasingly interested in his Jewish identity, with a particular fascination for the history of the persecution of Jews in different countries and the struggle for Jewish emancipation. These topics had not featured greatly in his earlier writings.…”

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“…On the other hand, leaving the unfinished history unpublished would be a betrayal of both Isaac's efforts and Sarah's; the amount of work involved in acting for so many years as secretary to her father, who must have been even more dependent on her after her mother's death the previous summer, should not be underestimated. 24 Hence perhaps the decision to publish the work anonymously. It may have helped both that anonymous or pseudonymous publication was not unusual in literary circles in England in this period and that this would not be the first time that Benjamin and Sarah had published anonymously a jointly authored work.…”

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“…9 Nonetheless, when writing about Jews, he usually used the third person (Ogden 194), as if he was himself a Christian. 10 His ambivalence is illustrated by his initial strong determination that The Genius of Judaism be published anonymously; he agreed to add his name to the title page for the second edition only on the insistence of his publisher that this could increase his sales. 11 Isaac's interest in Jews is reflected in his papers, some of which are included in the archive of his son Benjamin which was preserved in Hughenden Manor and are now housed in the Bodleian Library.…”

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The Disraeli family and the history of the Jews

Goodman¹

2020

Journal of Jewish Studies

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One of the illustrated Victorian editions of Whiston's translation of Josephus, printed in London in 1848, contains 'a Sequel to the History of the Jews; continued to the present time'. The title page gives no indication of the origins of this Sequel, which comprises a substantial history of the Jews from the first century CE to the nineteenth century. The article discusses the reasons to suppose that the Sequel was composed by the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and completed rapidly after his death by his children, Benjamin Disraeli and his sister Sarah. The composition and publication history of the Sequel shed light both on the Jewish identity of Isaac and on the complex attitude of Benjamin to the public debates on Jewish emancipation, in which he intervened dramatically for the first time in December 1847.sequel to the History of the Jews; continued to the present time'. 2 The title page gives no indication of the origins of this Sequel, a substantial history of the Jews from the first century CE to the nineteenth century which runs to 227 large pages of small type, but (apart from the three pages at the end which cover the period from 1848 to 1876) it can be traced back to an earlier edition of Whiston printed in London in 1848, probably by John and Frederick Tallis, who specialised in the production of maps and atlases. 3 There are reasons to suppose that the original 1848 version was composed by the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and completed after his death by his children, Benjamin Disraeli and his sister Sarah. The composition and publication history of the Sequel shed light both on the Jewish identity of Isaac and on the complex attitude of Benjamin to the public debates on Jewish emancipation in which he intervened briefly but dramatically for the first time in December 1847, just before his father died in January 1848, only to distance himself from the cause for the remainder of his political career.The Sequel constitutes a roughly continuous narrative of Jewish history from the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE down to the mid nineteenth century. It is divided into six 'books' of unequal lengths. The first book's title announces it as 'comprehending the events of two centuries, from the fall of Jerusalem to the time of the emperor Severus'. The second book 'comprehends events of the third, fourth and fifth centuries, to the time of Mohamet'. The third book, which is the shortest, deals with 'events from the sixth to the ninth century, and to the first appearance of the Jews in England'. The fourth book goes 'from the ninth century to the reign of King Edward the first of England'.The fifth book covers the period 'from the thirteenth century to the time of Oliver Cromwell'.The final book, at 63 pages the longest by some way, deals with 'events affecting the Jews from the middle of the seventeenth century to the present time'. The history is thus heavily weighted towards recent times.

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The Disraeli family and the history of the Jews

Goodman¹

2020

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“…7 Not dissimilarly, the slightly longer pieces of the Miscellanies of 1796 went through a second edition in 1801 and were revised again in 1840. 8…”

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Isaac D’Israeli, Reader of Montaigne

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2016

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