Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums · 1932-01-01 · Heft 3 · p. Seite 225

Benjamin Disraeli, Juden und Judentum 225 ihm in mancher Hinsicht congenialen Charakter wie Alroy angezogen und widmete seinem Andenken den Roman. Aufschlußreich hierfür, ,was Mirjam dem verzweifelten Bruder, der im Kerker seines Todesurteils harrt und sein Los bejammert: "Alas! there is no one to guard my name, ,Twill be reviled, or worse, ,t will be forgotten\“ erwidert: "Never! the memory of great actions never dies. The sun of glory, thought awhile obscured, will shine at last. And so, sweet brother, perchance some poet, in some distant age, within whose veins our sacred blood may flow, his fancy fired with the national the me, may strike his harp to Alroy's wild career, and consecrate a name too long forgotten?" (ebda. S. 255). Prosaischer lesen wir in der General Preface (XX): "Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the kings, my thoughts returned to the marvellous career which had attracted my boyhood, and I shortly after finished a work which began the year after I wrote Vivian Grey.“ Als im Jahre 1867 Disraeli in Edinburg wegen seines großen darlamentarischen Erfolges gefeiert wurde, äußerte sich der schottische Schriftsteller Sir John Skelton folgendermaßen über ihnr "Whig or Radical or Tory don't matter much, perhaps, but this mightier Venice — this Imperial Republic on which the sun never sets — that vision fascinates him, or I am much mistaken. England is the Israel of his imagination, and he will be the Impeiial minister before he dies“ (Buckle IV, 559). Skelton bewies Scharfblick. An diesem Punkte müssen wir gegen das Raymondscbe Buch Einspruch erheben. Er hält Disraeli trotz aller seiner Verdienste um England für einen Alien, Fremdling: "He learned to love England, but could never feel for her as son feels for mother . . . . . he had proved himself in most respects a man of honour and fine feeling, but in all respects a Jew“ (S. 362). Dies sagt Raymond zur Bekräftigung seiner Theorie: "The Jew may become, in relation to the land of his adoption, a true patriot, but he must always remain, for a multitude of purposes, an alien; and it is an injustice to his patriotism to gloss over his alienism. ... If we insist on regarding the Jew as an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, or a German, we shall not only be wrong about him, but in the wrong with him. He will have as much contempt for our eulogies as for our censures“ (§3 .־). Möglich, wahrscheinlich, Monatsschrift, 76. Jahrgang 15