Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic HistoryJames Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city's bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pronounced. In Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce, a leading economic historian tells the real story of how Jewish Ireland--and Dublin's Little Jerusalem in particular--made ends meet from the 1870s, when the first Lithuanian Jewish immigrants landed in Dublin, to the late 1940s, just before the community began its dramatic decline. |
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CHAPTER 2 EnglandIreland and Dear Dirty Dublin | 30 |
CHAPTER 3 They Knew No Trade But Peddling | 45 |
CHAPTER 4 SelfEmployment Social Mobility | 72 |
CHAPTER 5 Settling In | 94 |
CHAPTER 6 Schooling and Literacy | 122 |
CHAPTER 7 The Demography of Irish Jewry | 129 |
CHAPTER 9 Newcomer to Neighbor | 178 |
CHAPTER 10 Ich Geh Fun Ireland | 204 |
APPENDIX 1 Letters to One of the Last Weekly Men | 217 |
APPENDIX 2 Mr Parnell Remembers | 221 |
APPENDIX 3 Louis Hyman Jessie Bloom and The Jews of Ireland | 224 |
Notes | 229 |
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