{"product_id":"jewish-ireland-in-the-age-of-joyce-a-socioeconomic-history-9780691171050","title":"Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce  A","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-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 and what they ate... Grada's Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce is a scholarly comprehensive tome full of hard facts and anecdotal tidbits on this little-known chapter in the story of the Ashkenazic Diaspora that will appeal to history buffs and literary fanatics alike.\"--Caraid O'Brien, Forward \"This remarkable book traces the social, economic and demographic history of the Irish Jewish community between, roughly, 1870 and 1976... The book traces the educational and economic rise of the community... A wonderful feature of this book is its superb library of quotations, which appear in twos and threes at the head of each chapter and throughout the text. These extracts from the literature and sayings of the Irish Jews would make a short book in themselves.\"--Adrian Hardiman, Irish Times \"This is a scholarly work, but the non-academic reader should not be put off by the scholarship. In-between the tables and graphs, there is a wonderfully curious, endlessly entertaining, and deeply humane book. Joyce would have loved it.\"--Brian Lynch, Irish Independent \"O Grada provides a definitive socio-economic study ... covering everything from the occupational profile and literacy levels of this community to the density of Jewish settlement in particular Dublin neighborhoods. But he has also produced a moving tribute to (what he terms) this 'small Irish tributary' of the mass Jewish exodus from Eastern Europe, which ... overcame most of the challenges and limited opportunities it faced in establishing a new life in Ireland.\"--Rory Miller, Journal of Jewish Studies \"For both Joyce scholars and historians of immigrant groups in Britain, this study is a fascinating piece of research that, much to its credit, relates a host of interview testimony to fill out the flavor and nuance of the Irish-Jewish community during what would prove to be its heyday.\"--Neil R. Davison, The Historian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables ix  Acknowledgments xi      INTRODUCTION 1      CHAPTER 1: Arrival and Context 9  Leaving Home: History and Memory 12  The Migration in Context 21      CHAPTER 2: \"England-Ireland\" and Dear Dirty Dublin 30  Mortality 33  Living Standards 40  Interwar Dublin 41  Water and Sanitation 42  The Jewish Community in Context 43      CHAPTER 3: \"They Knew No Trade But Peddling\" 45  The Weekly Men 47  The Old and the New Peddling 56  \"The Jewman Moneylender\" 61      CHAPTER 4: Self-Employment, Social Mobility 72  Artisans 72  Occupational Mobility 73  Immigrants as Entrepreneurs and Workers 84  Technical Appendix: More on Age and Occupational Choice in the United States 92      CHAPTER 5: Settling In 94  Housing and Settlement 94  Six Streets in Little Jerusalem 105  Within-Street Clustering 108  Cork and Belfast Jewries 115      CHAPTER 6: Schooling and Literacy 122      CHAPTER 7: The Demography of Irish Jewry 129  The 1911 Population Census 131  The Fertility Transition 134  Jewish and Gentile Fertility 136  Infant and Child Mortality 143  Mortality in Jewish Ireland 147  Culture Mattered 152  Technical Appendix: Accounting for the Variation in Fertility and Infant\/Child Mortality 154      CHAPTER 8: Culture, Family, Health 160  Litvak Culture 164  Food, Drink, and Health 171  CHAPTER 9: Newcomer to Neighbor 178  In the Beginning 179  Remembering Limerick 191  Autobiographical Memory 194  Social Learning across Communities? 200  A Note on Litigation between Jews 202      CHAPTER 10: Ich Geh Fun \"Ire\"land 204  Religion 205  From Little Jerusalem to Rathgar and Beyond 206  Decline 209      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  Bibliography 271  Index 295","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403828601175,"sku":"9780691171050","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691171050.jpg?v=1730484663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-ireland-in-the-age-of-joyce-a-socioeconomic-history-9780691171050","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}