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Cormac Ó Gráda - Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History - 9780691127194 - V9780691127194
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Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History

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Description for Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History Hardback.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691127194
SKU
V9780691127194
Shipping Time
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About Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac O Grada is Professor of Economics at University College Dublin. His seven previous books include "Black '47 and Beyond" (Princeton), which won the 2000 James J. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Best Book on Irish History or Social Studies and was one of "Choice"'s Outstanding Academic Books of 1999.

Reviews for Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History
Co-Winner of the 2006 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies "While much has been written about the Jewishness of James Joyce's Leopold Bloom ... few know anything about the remarkable community in Ireland that inspired Joyce to create him ... This work is extremely detailed, describing the Jewish communities down to the streets they lived on ... Read more

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