Sig Nordal, Jr.

To the Editors: In his review of Rosemary Ashton’s One Hot Summer, Tim Flannery errs in crediting Benjamin Disraeli with enactment of Jewish emancipation in 1858, a bit of myth-making that most of Disraeli’s many biographers indulge in and that he himself practiced wholesale.

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