Les Juifs de Dublin

The Jewish community of Dublin, long modest in size, developed mainly in the late nineteenth century with the arrival of Ashkenazi immigrants from Eastern Europe, who settled particularly around the Portobello neighborhood, sometimes nicknamed "Little Jerusalem." Its members were merchants, peddlers, and artisans, and they established synagogues and communal institutions. James Joyce immortalized this presence through the character of Leopold Bloom in his novel Ulysses. The community, always small, has declined in the second half of the twentieth century while retaining active institutions.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗