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. In 1866--the year Bloom was born--Dublin's Jewish population hardly existed, and on the eve of World War I it numbered barely three thousand. But this small group of people quickly found an economic niche in an era of depression, and developed a surprisingly vibrant web of institutions. In a richly detailed, elegantly written blend of historical, economic, and demographic analysis, Cormac Ó Gráda examines the challenges this community faced. He asks how its patterns of child rearing, schooling, and cultural and religious behavior influenced its marital, fertility, and infant-mortality rates. He argues that the community's small size shaped its occupational profile and influenced its acculturation; it also compromised its viability in the long run.
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Contents
CHAPTER | 7 |
Arrival and Context | 9 |
1 | 15 |
3 | 23 |
CHAPTER 2 | 30 |
1 | 31 |
2 | 37 |
CHAPTER 3 | 49 |
1 | 133 |
Five Years by Mothers Nationality Manhattan 1915 | 145 |
92 | 149 |
Fertility and InfantChild Mortality | 154 |
Marginal Effects | 155 |
CHAPTER 8 | 160 |
32 | 168 |
CHAPTER 9 | 178 |
CHAPTER 4 | 72 |
2a The Occupational Profile of Jews and Others in Ireland | 75 |
1ap Shifting Shares of Several Occupations or Occupational | 78 |
Choice in the United States | 92 |
Chancery Lane 1913 | 98 |
CHAPTER 6 | 108 |
3a | 110 |
Schooling and Literacy | 122 |
The Demography of Irish Jewry | 129 |
105 | 200 |
CHAPTER 10 | 204 |
APPENDIX 1 | 217 |
APPENDIX 3 | 224 |
122 | 239 |
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