Talk:Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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Removed from the text: (the first Jewish leader of a major British political party). In fact this distinction belongs to Benjamin Disraeli. -- Graham :) 02:32, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Disraeli was baptised a Christian. Therefore Samuel is the first unconverted Jew to lead a party.

It depends on whether you class Jewishness as a race or religion - it could be either. If the former it's Disraeli, if the latter this guy. -- Graham :) 03:26, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Now described as the "first unconverted Jew to lead a UK party Andylehrer 03:34, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Now first practicing Jew. Alun 11:30, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

The text says "As such, Samuel was the first Jew to govern the historic land of Israel in 2,000 years" which is kind of misleading since the modern state of Israel did not exist back then and Samuel was not primarily in Mandatory Palestine as a Jew but as a British administrator. The way it's phrased now seems to imply some sort of Jewish control over the land. Shall we change this? RoyalTS