Language:
English
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
44,4 (1997-1998) 35-40
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Pogroms
Abstract:
In 1904, Catholic citizens of Limerick, instigated by the aggressively antisemitic sermons of Father John Creagh, boycotted Jewish businesses and repudiated unrepaid loans taken from Jewish moneylenders. In April of that year, Rabbi Levin and two other Jews of Limerick were stoned. The "pogrom" was condemned by most Irish people. Shows that it was the radical nationalist party Sinn Fein which supported the anti-Jewish actions and that many of its members propagated antisemitism. Among the radical nationalists who promoted antisemitism were Sinn Fein's leader Arthur Griffith and the journalist D.P. Moran. Irish radical nationalists used "Jewish images" in cartoons aimed at attacking their enemies - from the British Empire to moderate Irish nationalists. Assumes that the Jewish imagery served the radicals not only as a symbol of "financial power", but also as one of degeneration of the British oppressors.
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