Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, lived from 21 December 1804
to 19 April 1881. He was British Prime Minister from February to December in 1868, and
again from February 1874 to April 1880.
Although born of Jewish parents, Disraeli was baptised in the Christian faith at
the age of twelve, and remained an observant Anglican for the rest of his life.
He was nonetheless the country's first and thus far only Prime Minister who was
born into a Jewish family.
In Adam Kirsch's biography of Disraeli, the author states that his Jewishness was
"both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine." Much of the
criticism of his policies was couched in anti-Semitic terms. He was depicted in some
antisemitic political Cartoons with a big nose and curly black hair, called "Shylock"
and "abominable Jew", and portrayed in the act of ritually murdering the infant
Britannia. In response to an anti-Semitic comment in the British parliament, Disraeli
memorably defended his Jewishness with the statement, "Yes, I am a Jew, and
when the ancestors of the Right Honourable Gentleman were brutal savages in an
unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon." One apocryphal
story states that Disraeli reconverted to Judaism on his deathbed.
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