Benjamin Disraeli, who is a baptized Christian…

Benjamin Disraeli, who is a baptized Christian of Italian-Jewish descent, writes a Zionist novel, Tancred, in 1847, in which he describes the Jews' desire for independence in a land of their own.

The most important event in Disraeli's boyhood had been his father's quarrel in 1813 with the synagogue of Bevis Marks, which led to the decision in 1817 to have his children baptized as Christians.