Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Conclusion: Disraeli’s Alroy
Summary
We examine The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, in which Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) brilliantly takes a story from Benjamin of Tudela’s 12th-century travelogue about the Kurdish Messiah David Alory and turns it into a novel about Jewish global politics in the 19th century, concluding the series on Disraeli.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at NYU. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); He is co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017), and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History, (Hawaii University Press, 2023).