“I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.” — quoted by Thom Brown, Disraeli the Novelist (Abington, New York: Routledge, 2016), 119.
Disraeli’s own religions
- A baptised Jew and practising Anglican
- David Cesarani on Benjamin Disraeli's Jewishness
- The Church of England (the Anglican or Established Church)
- Romance, Religion and Politics in Benjamin Disraeli’s Lothair
Disraeli & Judaism
“That sacred and romantic people from whom I derive my blood and name’”
- Race and the Jewish Question in Conigsby and Endymion
- The language and spirit of the Old Testament in Alroy
- A Jewish messiah and the Imperial Idea in Alroy
- Jewish history a model of the way to restore England’s greatness
- Judaism and the origin of Christianity
- Jewish Messianism and an English imperial idea
- The doctrine of theocratic equality
- Judaism in Victorian England (homepage)
Roman Catholicism
- Catholic Emancipation in The Young Duke
- Family Responsibility, Catholicism, and Class Power in Sybil
Last modified 19 March 2018