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Abigail Green

Abigail Green is a professor of modern European history at the University of Oxford. She is writing a history of Jewish liberal activism since 1848 and is leading a major research project on Jewish country houses.

One Nation, Two Disraelis

One Nation, Two Disraelis

Abigail Green

In locating Disraeli within modern Jewish history, the late David Cesarani engages with a tradition that he traces back to Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin, who placed Disraeli’s Jewishness at the heart of his private life, his novels, his political thought, and his career as a politician.