BENJAMIN DISRAELI (Jewish Encounters) By Adam Kirsch LIKE NEW Hardcover Book

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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
Artist
Kirsch, Adam
Brand
N/A
Type
Hardback
EAN
9780805242492
ISBN
080524249X
Publication Name
N/A
Release Title
Benjamin Disraeli (Jewish Encounters)
Colour
N/A
Book Title
Benjamin Disraeli
Book Series
Jewish Encounters Ser.
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
7.8 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Adam Kirsch
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Political, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Jewish
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Item Width
4.8 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
080524249X
ISBN-13
9780805242492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038750161

Product Key Features

Book Title
Benjamin Disraeli
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Political, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Jewish
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Adam Kirsch
Book Series
Jewish Encounters Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
13.7 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
4.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-001628
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Adam Kirsch has produced a charming and absorbing apercu into one of the most fascinating statesmen of modern history. A delightful read.: --Howard M. Sachar, author ofA History of Israel "Kirsch has written an important and compelling book about Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of England, who famously replied, 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.' This engaging biography gives nuance and meaning to one of the most enigmatic men of the Victorian era." --Amanda Foreman, author ofGeorgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, "Adam Kirsch has produced a charming and absorbing apercu into one of the most fascinating statesmen of modern history. A delightful read.: --Howard M. Sachar, author ofA History of Israel "Kirsch has written an important and compelling book about Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of England, who famously replied, 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.' This engaging biography gives nuance and meaning to one of the most enigmatic men of the Victorian era." --Amanda Foreman, author ofGeorgiana: Duchess of Devonshire From the Hardcover edition., "Adam Kirsch has produced a charming and absorbing apercu into one of the most fascinating statesmen of modern history. A delightful read.: --Howard M. Sachar, author of A History of Israel "Kirsch has written an important and compelling book about Benjamin Disraeli, the first Jewish prime minister of England, who famously replied, 'Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.' This engaging biography gives nuance and meaning to one of the most enigmatic men of the Victorian era." --Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal
941.081092 B
Synopsis
Part of the Jewish Encounter series A dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who was born a Jew--and who remained in the eyes of his countrymen a member of a despised minority--managed to become prime minister of England seems even today nothing short of miraculous. In this compelling biography, renowned poet and critic Adam Kirsch looks at Disraeli as a novelist as well as a statesman, recognizing that the outsider Jew who became one of the world's most powerful men was his own greatest character. Though baptized by his father at the age of twelve, Disraeli was seen--and saw himself--as a Jew. But her created an idea of Jewishness to rival the British notion of aristocracy. Disraeli was a figure of fascinating contradictions: an archconservative who benefited from England's liberal attitudes, a baptized Christian who saw Jewishness as a matter of racial superiority, a perennial outsider who dreamed of glory for England, which, in the words of one contemporary, became for Disraeli "the Israel of his imagination."
LC Classification Number
DA564.B3K57 2008

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