What is extraordinary is that this practicing Anglican never disowned his Jewishness. In fact, Disraeli played up his ancestry.

Following the example of the poet Lord Byron, Disraeli became an ardent Romantic, adopting the fashion of the London dandies and writing a series of novels about British high society.

In ‘Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli,’ Daisy Hay uses the letters of the prime minister and his wife to portray a marriage.

Indeed, the rivalry that went on for years in the late 19th century between Disraeli, the heartless geopolitician of Jewish extraction, and Gladstone, the pious Christian moralist -- and that in ...

In 1963, Emmy nominations for writing and helming went to lawyer and doctor shows; a Western about a crooked poker game; a bittersweet romance; and a stage play starring Trevor Howard as Disraeli ...

"I have," writes Disraeli from Cairo, "become a most accomplished smoker; carrying the luxurious art to a pitch of refinement of which Ralph has no idea. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...