SNIPPET: "Irish Heart Jewish Soul, Favourite Irish and Jewish Songs" 2004 CD: The Jewish community in Ireland is not large, but its contribution to Irish life and culture is very notable. Singer Carl NELKIN, supported by fiddle, pipes, mandolin and percussion present a selection of Irish songs including "Love Thee Dearest," "By the Short Cut to the Rosses," "Bantry Bay," "Danny Boy" and Jewish melodies from the Yiddish theatre, interpreting Jewish-Irish intercultural activity and unique inheritance of Irish Jews by the use of traditional Irish instruments in the music for songs including the traditional "Der Rebbi Elimelech, Mazl" from the film "Mamele" and the lovely lullaby "Yankele" written by the great Polish folk singer Mordechai GEBIRTIG in the tragic year 1942. These songs are sung in Yiddish and a printed version of English is provided, per review in Irish magazine. Info: cnelkin@iol.ie. Some background -- "Jews have a long, but by no means continuous, history in Ireland. Scattered references to their presence have been discovered between the 11th and 13th centuries. In 1290 Jews were expelled from the dominions of the English crown, though there are stray references thereafter to individuals, including some refugees from Spain and Portugal in the 16th century. Jews began to resettle in England from 1656 and had reappeared in Ireland by the 1660s. Dublin had a rabbi by 1700, and a Jewish cemetery opened in 1718. By the mid-18th century Cork also had an organized community. Jews were by now sufficiently numerous, or at least noticeable, for their status to become a political issue. Proposals to permit their naturalization were debated by the Irish parliament on four occasions between 1743-1747, but rejected each time. A British act of 1753, which would have permitted naturalization in both Great Britain and Ireland, was repealed after eight months due! to hostile agitation. The Irish Naturalization Act of 1784 explicitly excluded Jews, a provision repealed only in 1816. The Jewish presence in Ireland remained a volatile one, highly responsive to economic and other circumstances. From the 1690s Dublin had attracted a group of wealthy merchants originally based in London; most of these, however, returned to England during the depressed years of the late 1720s. At the end of the 18th century the Dublin community largely collapsed, due partly to conversion and intermarriage with Christians, but also to emigration at a time of political unrest and economic uncertainty. In 1818 there were said to be only two Jewish families in the city. From the 1820s a new Jewish popilation appeared, of German and Polish origin but coming to Ireland via England. A high proportion were goldsmiths, silversmiths, and watchmakers, or dealers in tobacco, cigars, and snuff. In 1874 Lewis HARRIS (1812-76), merchant and jeweller, stood successfully for election in Dublin corporation. Overall numbers remained small: the census recorded 393 Jews in 1861 and only! 285 in 1871. From the 1880s, however, there arrived a much larger group of immigrants from eastern Europe, mainly refugees from prosecution in Tsarist Russia. By 1901 Jewish numbers had risen to 3,769. This influx of mainly poor eastern Europeans encouraged a degree of anti-Semitism, notably in Limerick, where inflammatory preaching by a Redemptorist priest, John CREAGH, inspired a two-year boycott of the city's Jewish shopkeepers and traders" -- The Oxford Companion to Irish History," new edition/2002, Oxford Press/editor, S. J. CONNOLLY, Prof. Irish History, Queen's University, Belfast.

Jean I love these articles as it reminds me of my Irish Heritage with warts and all. The Limerick progrom is a shameful episode of Irish intolerance.. The Jewish quarter in Limerick was attacked by a mob and instigated by a Fr I Creagh. The Jewish people who settled there were from Russia on the way to the States. There were two ship loads of people and for some reason or other found their way to Limerick City. There were some elements such as money lending and the rag trade used as excuses for the violent attacks on the Jewish community. Boycotts were instigated which eventually forced the defenceless fledgingly community to leave Limerick. Two famous Irish men were on both sides of the split of the divided public opinion of the day in Ireland. Arthur Griffith for and Michael Davitt against. Having noted the above in the 1950s Dublin elected its first Jewish Lord Mayor R Briscoe and his son Ben later Mayor of Cork Ciaran Colgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IRISH-IN-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 3:00 AM Subject: [UK-Irish] "Irish Heart Jewish Soul" - Favourite Irish/Jewish Songs (NELKIN) - History/Jews in Ireland > SNIPPET: "Irish Heart Jewish Soul, Favourite Irish and Jewish Songs" > 2004 CD: The Jewish community in Ireland is not large, but its > contribution to Irish life and culture is very notable. Singer Carl > NELKIN, supported by fiddle, pipes, mandolin and percussion present a > selection of Irish songs including "Love Thee Dearest," "By the Short Cut > to the Rosses," "Bantry Bay," "Danny Boy" and Jewish melodies from the > Yiddish theatre, interpreting Jewish-Irish intercultural activity and > unique inheritance of Irish Jews by the use of traditional Irish > instruments in the music for songs including the traditional "Der Rebbi > Elimelech, Mazl" from the film "Mamele" and the lovely lullaby "Yankele" > written by the great Polish folk singer Mordechai GEBIRTIG in the tragic > year 1942. These songs are sung in Yiddish and a printed version of > English is provided, per review in Irish magazine. Info: cnelkin@iol.ie. > > Some background -- "Jews have a long, but by no means continuous, history > in Ireland. Scattered references to their presence have been discovered > between the 11th and 13th centuries. In 1290 Jews were expelled from the > dominions of the English crown, though there are stray references > thereafter to individuals, including some refugees from Spain and Portugal > in the 16th century. Jews began to resettle in England from 1656 and had > reappeared in Ireland by the 1660s. Dublin had a rabbi by 1700, and a > Jewish cemetery opened in 1718. By the mid-18th century Cork also had an > organized community. Jews were by now sufficiently numerous, or at least > noticeable, for their status to become a political issue. Proposals to > permit their naturalization were debated by the Irish parliament on four > occasions between 1743-1747, but rejected each time. A British act of > 1753, which would have permitted naturalization in both Great Britain and > Ireland, was repealed after eight months due! > to hostile agitation. The Irish Naturalization Act of 1784 explicitly > excluded Jews, a provision repealed only in 1816. > > The Jewish presence in Ireland remained a volatile one, highly responsive > to economic and other circumstances. From the 1690s Dublin had attracted > a group of wealthy merchants originally based in London; most of these, > however, returned to England during the depressed years of the late > 1720s. At the end of the 18th century the Dublin community largely > collapsed, due partly to conversion and intermarriage with Christians, but > also to emigration at a time of political unrest and economic uncertainty. > In 1818 there were said to be only two Jewish families in the city. From > the 1820s a new Jewish popilation appeared, of German and Polish origin > but coming to Ireland via England. A high proportion were goldsmiths, > silversmiths, and watchmakers, or dealers in tobacco, cigars, and snuff. > In 1874 Lewis HARRIS (1812-76), merchant and jeweller, stood successfully > for election in Dublin corporation. Overall numbers remained small: the > census recorded 393 Jews in 1861 and only! > 285 in 1871. From the 1880s, however, there arrived a much larger group > of immigrants from eastern Europe, mainly refugees from prosecution in > Tsarist Russia. > > By 1901 Jewish numbers had risen to 3,769. This influx of mainly poor > eastern Europeans encouraged a degree of anti-Semitism, notably in > Limerick, where inflammatory preaching by a Redemptorist priest, John > CREAGH, inspired a two-year boycott of the city's Jewish shopkeepers and > traders" -- The Oxford Companion to Irish History," new edition/2002, > Oxford Press/editor, S. J. 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