Jewish Ireland: A Social History

by Ray Rivlin

An engaging and thoroughly researched panorama of the Irish Jewish community Based on library and archival material, private memoirs, and oral testimony, this book traces Irish-Jewish life from the 1880s when Orthodox Russian Jews, forced to flee Tsarist persecution, began arriving in Ireland without any means of support, little secular education, and no understanding of English. Overcoming poverty and antipathy, they established Jewish enclaves in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845887085
• ISBN13: 9781845887087
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Thp Ireland
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"