Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
PaRDeS; Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2012) 51-66
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews History
Abstract:
Criticizes the existing historiography of Irish Jewry for its failure to consider the true extent and impact of antisemitism on Ireland's Jewish community. This historiography uses uncritically the Irish-Jewish communal narrative, which tends to overestimate the Jewish relationship with Irish nationalist politicians, e.g. the putative friendship between Éamon De Valera and some prominent Jewish figures, as well as to downplay the scope of antisemitism in Ireland as being a marginal phenomenon or part of parochialness and sectariansim endemic to Irish society in the early 20th century. Secondary sources allow an estimation of the genuine extent of antisemitism in Ireland, among them recorded negative experiences of children of interfaith marriages, the discriminatory official immigration policies of the 1930s-40s, and results of polls conducted in the 1990s. Calls for the reevaluation of Irish-Jewish relations in the 20th century.
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