Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 148: Quarterly Nos 296, 297; January and April 1911 He is, in fact, an ancient Jewish type, dear to th wandering or exiled race that gave renown to Joseph I] Egypt, and to Mordecai m Shushan the palace. Tha dream of a Grand Vizier exalted by the heathen king ti share 1n his sovereignty, must have sprung up whereve Israel dwelt under a foreign yoke. It has often been ful filled, notably 1n the Spain of Moorish Emirs and Sephar dim glories. The legend of which Alroy is a varian haunted ...
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Excerpt from The Dublin Review, Vol. 148: Quarterly Nos 296, 297; January and April 1911 He is, in fact, an ancient Jewish type, dear to th wandering or exiled race that gave renown to Joseph I] Egypt, and to Mordecai m Shushan the palace. Tha dream of a Grand Vizier exalted by the heathen king ti share 1n his sovereignty, must have sprung up whereve Israel dwelt under a foreign yoke. It has often been ful filled, notably 1n the Spain of Moorish Emirs and Sephar dim glories. The legend of which Alroy is a varian haunted Disraeli' s imagination, we may be sure, from the cradle. Though London held no Ghetto wallec round about, the synagogue of Bevis Marks would itsel be an outward sign denoting the separation in whicl Jews had to pass their days. Visions and dreams, little a a Voltarian like Isaac Disraeli might encourage them, ht ever been the food of Jewish reformers, revolutionaries false Messiahs - and when were these wanting? Not assuredly, in the restless time which followed on Na poleon's emancipation of his Hebrew subjects, or during the reaction under Metternich. Liberal Jews sought ar entrance into Western civilization everywhere; but they came in as aliens, and aliens, by force of blood, they re mained. How could it be otherwise At all events, Benja min Disraeli, whether discoursing on State or Church Whig or Tory, the two nations of rich and poor, the condition of Ireland, or secret societies abroad, shows by his peculiar insight, and a turn of language not else where found, how detached he was from purely English thought.entirely on my own impulse. I have an unerring instinct I can read characters at a glance; few men deceive me. My mind is a Continental mind. It is a revolutionary mind. I am only truly great in action. There spoke the Jew, prepared with Heine to fight in a war of liberation, with Lassalle (as Bismarck jestingly said) to found a dynasty, his motives self-regarding, but his race identi fied with his ambition. And the ideas by which he wrought were never Greek and speculative; they drove at practice; they dictated a policy; they Sprang armed out of the Old Testament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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