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Book review: Disraeli: The Novel Politician, David Cesarani

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  • Overshadowed by the Holborn Viaduct and enveloped by the City of London’s approach roads, it is easy to miss the parish church of St

  • Its onetime rector was Henry Sacheverell, infamous for stirring up angry mobs against the infidel and Dissenting enemies of the Church of England. In this sturdy bastion of English Christianity, that Benjamin Disraeli was baptized on 11 July 1817 at the age of thirteen

  • Disraeli’s baptism has always scuppered naive attempts to represent him as a Jewish politician

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Overshadowed by the Holborn Viaduct and enveloped by the City of London’s approach roads, it is easy to miss the parish church of St. Review: Disraeli: The Novel Politician, David Cesarani ‘Disraeli: The Novel Politician, David Cesarani.’ Jewish Historical Studies, 2017, 48(1), pp.

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