D'ISRAELI, ISAAC

D'ISRAELI, ISAAC
D'ISRAELI, ISAAC (1766–1848), English writer; father of benjamin disraeli . In 1748 his father, a Sephardi Jew, settled in London, where Isaac was born. D'Israeli entered commerce, although he was financially independent. His Curiosities of Literature (1791, and often reprinted), which made him famous, reveals a remarkable acquaintance with the by-ways of English literature. His Amenities of Literature was completed in 1840, after he had become blind. Although he was a free-thinker, D'Israeli maintained a formal connection with the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. However, as a result of a dispute over a fine of £40 imposed on him by the Sephardi elders, he formally withdrew from that community in 1817 and had his children, including the future Earl of Beaconsfield, baptized as members of the Church of England. Although he did not become a Christian, his Genius of Judaism (1833), as well as some incidental remarks in his novel Vaurien (1797), testify to his estrangement from Judaism. D'Israeli's view of English history was pro-Tory. He defended the Stuart kings against the Whigs in a way which might well have influenced the outlook of his celebrated son. In his lifetime, D'Israeli was already a well-known and much admired name, a point which is often ignored by those who regard Benjamin Disraeli as a complete outsider. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Ogden, Isaac D'Israeli (Eng., 1969); S. Kopstein, Isaac D'Israeli (Ger., 1939); W.F. Monypenny and G.E. Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1 (1910), 1–27; C. Roth, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1952), 10–19; R. Blake, Disraeli (Eng., 1966). ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Katz, England, 330–34; ODNB online. (Harold Harel Fisch / William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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