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Lot #
8683
Auction End Date
12/7/2004 1:07:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Genius of Judaism
Author
[First Ed.] [Isaac D'Israeli]
City
London
Publisher
Edward Moxon
Publication Date
1833
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. [4], 266, [2] pp., 190:117 mm., wide margins, crisp marbled edges. A very good copy bound in the original half leather and marbled paper boards, corners tipped in, rubbed.
Detailed
Description
Isaac D'Israeli (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.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
England:
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Subject
Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
English
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
