Word: namierowski
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Love of Land. Namier loved England for its very lack of ideology. Born a Polish Jew-Bernstein-Namierowski-in turbulent Galicia, he longed for roots. He found them in England, where he went to study in 1908. Sad to say, he was never accepted as a teacher at Oxford because his overbearing personality offended the dons; he had to be content with the University of Manchester. Like another famous British Jew, Disraeli, Namier was accused of snobbery because of his weakness for aristocracy and great homes. But to Namier, as to Disraeli, these were symbols of a stable, successful society...