“ Founded close upon a century and a half ago—on the 17th Nisan, 5493, says an inscription on the southern wall—the tombs may there be inspected of many of the ancestors of families whose names are historical in the Anglo-Jewish community. It is a bleak, damp, and dismal expanse of sward, this resting-place of our great—old even down to the tufts of rusty matted grass, which seem, under their weight of years, to be unequal even to the exertion of covering the graves to which they give such unearthly shapes. Everything betokens age, and on every side relics of past times may be seen. ”

“ This Benjamin Disraeli was the grandfather of the late prime minister, the Viscount Hughenden, and the Earl of Beaconsfield, who until a few months ago was the arbiter of the destinies of the greatest empire in the world. The affectionate reverence of the distinguished grandson has recently penetrated into his ancestor’s humble Jewish resting-place, and the tomb has been repaired and freshly painted. ”

“ On the opposite side is another tomb, half sunk in the ground, which is also interesting, as not only marking the resting-place of the mother-in-law of Benjamin Disraeli the elder—the mother of his first wife—but also as containing necrographic evidence with which to correct Lord Beaconsfield’s own account of his family history. This is the tomb of Abigail Mendes Furtado of Portugal, who, according to the inscription, "after suffering the tortures of the Inquisition, fled for protection to England with her children . . . whom she educated in the Jewish faith and established well in marriage." ”