The London press gives much space to-day to the fact that it is fifty years to-day since Disraeli died. Most of the papers publish editorials and special articles. At Hughenden, Disraeli’s old home, where he is buried beneath the shadow of the church, two hundred members of the Primrose League went on pilgrimage to the grave, headed by Lord Strathcena, Chanceller of the League, and Mrs. Baldwin, the wife of the Concervative leader, Disraeli’s nephew, Major Disraeli, welcomed the guests.
Whether we jews care to claim this remarkable Prime Minister as a Jew, or whether his change of faith precludes our doing so is not of vital consequence in estimating his life and his work, the “Jewish Chronicle” writes. For these were much more influenced by his race and origin, and religious conviction can have had little to do with them. And so it seems to me but correct for us to class Disraeli as one of the great modern Jews: although, as it turned out, what may be termed his active services to his own people were but scanty, and were almost confined to the championing of equal civic rights for them in this country.
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