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James 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.



Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce presents a fascinating portrait of a group of people in an unlikely location who, though small in number, comprised Ireland's most resilient immigrant community until the Celtic Tiger's immigration surge of the 1990s.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations and Tables
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Chapter 1. Arrival and Context
  2. pp. 9-29
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  1. Chapter 2. “England-Ireland” and Dear Dirty Dublin
  2. pp. 30-44
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  1. Chapter 3. “They Knew No Trade But Peddling”
  2. pp. 45-71
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  1. Chapter 4. Self-Employment, Social Mobility
  2. pp. 72-93
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  1. Chapter 5. Settling In
  2. pp. 94-121
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  1. Chapter 6. Schooling and Literacy
  2. pp. 122-128
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  1. Chapter 7. The Demography of Irish Jewry
  2. pp. 129-159
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  1. Chapter 8. Culture, Family, Health
  2. pp. 160-177
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  1. Chapter 9. Newcomer to Neighbor
  2. pp. 178-203
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  1. Chapter 10. Ich Geh Fun “Ire”land
  2. pp. 204-216
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  1. Appendix 1. Letters to One of the Last “Weekly Men”
  2. pp. 217-220
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  1. Appendix 2. Mr. Parnell Remembers
  2. pp. 221-223
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  1. Appendix 3. Louis Hyman, Jessie Bloom, and The Jews of Ireland
  2. pp. 224-228
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 229-270
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 271-294
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  1. Index
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