Reimagining the Jews of Ireland : historiography, identity and representation / Zuleika Rodgers and Natalie Wynn (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rodgers, Zuleika, editor.

Wynn, Natalie, 1973- editor.

Series:

Reimagining Ireland ; v. 121.

Reimagining Ireland, 1662-9094 ; volume 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Ireland--Identity--History.

Jews.

Jews--Ireland--Social conditions.

Ireland--Ethnic relations--History.

Ireland.

Ethnic relations.

Jews--Identity.

Jews--Social conditions.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

vi, 285 pages : illustrations (color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2023]

Summary:

"Discourse, both scholarly and popular, around the Jews of Ireland has increased in recent years and this volume of essays takes up the challenge of placing it within the framework of Jewish historiography and the study of Jewish history and culture. The focus of the volume is to provide a critical re-evaluation of the study of Irish Jews looking at key areas such as Irish Jewish historiography, communal traditions, antisemitism, nationalism (Jewish and Irish) and representations in popular media. Underlying the contributions is the desire to reassess the ways in which traditional scholarship and representation of Irish Jews have been shaped by uninterrogated narratives and a lack of understanding and sensitivity to the context of Jewish history and the Jewish experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Jews in Ireland and Multiple Marginalities : Some Reflections on Historiography, Identity and Representation / Zuleika Rodgers, Natalie Wynn and Katrina Goldstone

Christian Restorationism in Ireland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and the Image of the Jew in the Irish Imagination / Philip Alexander

Radical Irish Zionists and their Antisemitism : Michael Davitt (1846-1906) and Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) / Colum Kenny

'They thought they were in New York' : Deconstructing the Communal Narrative of the Cork Jewish Community / Peter Garry

Portrayals of Jews in Irish Folk Tradition / Barbara Hillers

Jews as the 'economic other' : Negotiating Modernity, Identity and Change in the Irish Free State Commission on Vocational Organisation, 1939-43 / Trisha Oakley Kessler

'Where are the radical Irish Jews?' : Leslie Daiken and Michael Sayers, Negotiating Irish Jewish Leftist Identities in the 1930s and 1940s / Katrina Goldstone

'The Old Sinister Enemies Have found a New Ally' : The Judaeo-Bolshevik Myth in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Catholic Culture / Seán William Gannon

Nine Folds Make a Paper Jew : The Representation, Identity and Legacy of Irish Jews as Reflected in the Popular Press / Natalie Wynn

Young Turks / Bryan Cheyette.

Notes:

"This volume presents a selection of essays based on an academic workshop...held at Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub in June 2017"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Reimagining the Jews of Ireland

ISBN:

9781800790834

180079083X

OCLC:

1415748235

Publisher Number:

99995355901