Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History

by Cormac Ó Gráda and Cormac  Grda

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691127190
• ISBN13: 9780691127194
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"