Benjamin Disraeli: Jewish-Born Prime Minister of England (Jewish Biography as History)

British pm not English pm

I must go to the gardens

I must visit the gardens

What should also be noted here is that the British Labour party , in spite of its constant soap boxing and bleating about equality and opportunity for all unlike the supposedly racist and rigid Tory party; Only elected someone who could be termed as an ethnic minority leader as late as 2011 , The Tories had Disraeli as leader long before there was race quotas and unlike Labour has had a female leader.

Isn't the story of the Venetian merchant an explanation of the usury tradition in England?
(The subject of the merchant came up in this lecture, hence the question).

I love this are this are there more

You're not the next George Carlin, rabbi.

Very recommendable! So many things I did not know about Disraeli like he married an older woman and widow, proto Zionism ...

Prime minister of Britain.

Another great lecture !!! Jews are extremely fascinating.

England, Britain or United Kingdom which one are you talking about?Also love the way you judge other countries predjudices with an Israeli flag behind you.

There is no such thing as Prime Minister of England that is the most stupid thing I've ever heard. You're so factually incorrect I'm gasping. It's like saying there is a President of Florida or a President of Texas. There is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, which composes 4 regions; Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. And there is the President of the United States, which is composed of 50 regions. Britain and America are similar in that they have regions/states comprising their nations. Your lecture is just plain wrong in the title given to Mr Disraeli you're more or less disrespecting him calling him leader of only a part of his country, this is me saying so as a Briton.

Gardens>Cemetaries

Fascinating look at the special relationship between the English and the Jews. Blessing each other for generations.

Yeah and they got back in sometime around 1688, (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

So no Israel without the collapse of the Ottoman Empire? Interesting!


No collapse of the Ottoman Empire without The First World War? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

Oscar Wilde was also a dandy. Obsessed with being well-dressed to the point of effimancy.

Nice video

I am a Zimbabwean Catholic living in Sydney, Australia with an interest in Jewish culture so this was a very interesting lecture. Thank you!

Disraeli was not prime minister of England. There was no such title during his lifetime. He was prime minister of the United Kingdom.

“There are no new jokes”.

Disraeli was brave to be the first Jewish converted Prime Minister; but without faith he had to compensate by being more British Empire imperialist then the anti-Semitic establishment who never trusted or appreciate his ancestors or the Torah from the beginning.

The British Empire is gone but the faithful and holy scriptures are timeless, if he knew that at his time maybe he would have been better Prime Minister.

I like these lectures. But I would just like to point out he was Prime Minister of the UK, not just England. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland made up the UK at that point. So he was Prime Minister of the entire UK, not just England. England is just a part of the UK.
Sorry to point that out.

zionism is cancer

Dr Abramson, Disraeli was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, not England. England has never had it's own Prime Minister in the common sense, and even the it has not had it's own Head of Government since the Union with Scotland in 1707. England and United Kingdom/Great Britain are not synonymous.

Henry mate, I have only recently discovered this series of lectures and am slowly working through them. They are a fantastic insight into Jewish culture, histories and personalities. My one real issue is with the jokes! Next time you swindle some funds for a lecture series, please allow for some input from a comedy write or two in the budget. It will be worth it.

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9.02 There is no definitive proof that the main line of the family was Sephardic. Records go back only as far as Cento, namely Isaac Israeli and Enrichetta De Rossi about whom nothing but their names are known. On Isaacs Mothers` side you have Isaac Shiprut and possibly more importantly Esher de Gabay Villa Real which suggests an Iberian connection, but still no proof.
The only Sephardic certainty in the family arrives from an odd angle and late in the day, namely from the Lindo family. Benjamins Mother was Maria Basevi (Basevi records like Disraeli start in Italy). Her sister Sarah married Ephraim Lindo. One of their daughters, Olivia, married Charles Trevor (non jew) and they had 11 children, the 6th of which was Katherine, who in turn married Ralph, one of Benjamins` siblings.
The Lindos were without doubt of Iberian origin so only Ralphs wife and children, of which there were 4 can be certain to have Sephardic origins. The Disraeli name also died out at the end of this generation with youngest daughter Marguerite in 1967.

9.14 If Isaac was so proud of his ("Sephardic") ancestry then why did he not tell his children all about it? The lack of knowledge in that family as so `eloquently` demonstrated by Benjamins fantasizing about the Queen of Sheba, Constantinople and all the other rubbish he came up with, was spectacular, and is a never ending source of frustration for someone like me as a continuation of that line.
9.30 1748
10.32 The source of Isaacs `wealth` was for the most part his maternal Grandmother who cut out her 2 remaining children for "failing in their filial duties". Benjamin senior left £30,000, but he had 2 children and 4 grandchildren.
19.38 Isaac was 38 when Benjamin was born. He married once.
21.30 The issue was whether Bevis Marks / synagogues in general should modernise their traditions or stick to outmoded, and by then irrelevant traditions, as Isaac and others saw them. He was a moderniser. He got fed up. That is why he left. Likewise his brother in law by marriage, Ephraim Lindo. Conversely David Abarbanel Lindo, Ephraims brother, was a dyed in the wool traditionalist leading to much friction.

British culture is half Egyptian culture slash Hebrew Manasseh, efrum

Thanks!

Thanks!

British Prime minister not England.

Perhaps Donald J. Trump is the philosophical descendant of Benjamin Disraeli!

Figure is in pop culture because of the Clapton band album title, and the anecdote relayed is a guitar roadie tries to say derailleur, referencing the bike chain mechanism, but instead says Disraeli gear mistakenly...which Clapton and his chums find uproariously funny to the point of naming their debut album Disraeli gears. My curiosity is why is Disraeli so commonly referenced in 1960's/70's hippy culture in Britain, that the guitar roadie says his name to describe the bike chain device, accidentally. I can over read into anything, but I don't know why Disraeli must have been a pretty common place English reference in those decades, for the roadie to make the mistake, and Clapton to find it hysterical.

Benjamin Disraeli served two terms of office as PM not several.

Great lecture, learned about Disraeli from Robert Greene's book, "The Art of Seduction." Disraeli was a master social seducer.

Great upload. Thank's for sharing.

Disraeli biography is my under study. Your reliable lecture reap me much benefit.

Splendid portray

That was a great lecture and Time Transcendent Sabbath experience for many devoted to the True Path like me.

A dandy, think of Oscar Wilde’s dress and how he impresses

A great hero of mine pity he had to or thought he had to convert .

Bravo!. Excellent lecture, with very important information. In particular I appreciated your explanation of Distraeli's "proto Zionism." This is a topic that receives little attention in scholarship -- or at least I have had problems finding valid and reliable sources. The longing for Jerusalem and Judea shows up in the historiography of 17th - 18th century Jewish communities, both Hasidic and non, and eventually in the Reform movement of the 19th century.
Do you think that Disraeli was in fact a supporter and member-in-spirit of the Reform?

Very nice

I think Disraeli was always Jewish, not necessarily religious, but he never left it. Being baptised was for necessity as non protestent Christians were barred from most of British society.

Interesting and informative presentation. Since 2004 I have researched many aspects of Benjamin Disraeli, especially his first eight years, i.e. 1804 to 1812.

Is Henry Abramson aware of the following research about Disraeli?

3/2/2023 "Disraeli and the Rothschilds provide a study in the power of political patronage" by Suzanne Raine, Engelsberg Ideas.

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