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Jul 1, 2024 · “The East is a career,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his 1847 novel “Tancred,” two decades before he became the prime minister of the United Kingdom. The dictum rang true for generations of colonial officers and swashbuckling scholars, from Richard Francis Burton to Lawrence of Arabia.
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Jul 1, 2024 · “The East is a career,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his 1847 novel “Tancred,” two decades before he became the prime minister of the United Kingdom. ... Empire’s Orphan” is a biography ...
6 days ago · A lot has changed in the 144 years that separate the exit of the UK’s first ethnic minority prime minister — Benjamin Disraeli — from the near-certain forced retirement of its second, Rishi...
Jun 11, 2024 · However Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) remains the only prime minister of Jewish birth. As a young man, he seemed an unlikely candidate for future political eminence. A foppish and profligate dandy, he spent three years cavorting around the Mediterranean and emerging from Egypt with a nasty bout of venereal disease.
3 days ago · It depends on whether you count Benjamin Disraeli, who served as a Conservative prime minister during the reign of Queen Victoria. He was the son of Jews descended from Italian Sephardic...
Jun 27, 2024 · Benjamin Disraeli. (1804 – 1881) British prime minister, politician & author. Government When asked to withdraw his declaration that half of the cabinet were asses. Otto von Bismarck: The Germans have just bought a new country in Africa where Jews and pigs will be tolerated.
Jun 17, 2024 · Benjamin Disraeli — ‘We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.’
