> the first Jew to ever be elected to British parliament If anyone else was taken aback by this, Disraeli and a couple before him had to take an oath affirming

> the first Jew to ever be elected to British parliament If anyone else was taken aback by this, Disraeli and a couple before him had to take an oath affirming their Christianity before being seated and are bureaucratically regarded as converted. Although the first openly Jewish member to take his seat was Lionel de Rothschild in 1858, who was not Herbert Samuel, the person being referred to. Samuel was the first Jew to serve as cabinet minister and to lead a major party, though.