Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

by Dermot Keogh

Overview

Reconstructs the complex and often contradictory relationship between the Irish state and the Jewish community in Ireland since the turn of the century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859181508
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dermot Keogh is Professor of History at University College Cork, Jean Monet Emeritus Professor, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and is the author of Jack Lynch: A Biography (2008).

Editorial Reviews

Drawing from archives in Ireland and abroad, historian Keogh traces Irish Jews from the early decades of Irish independence and assesses their contribution to the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the new state. He analyzes the relationship between the Irish state and the community in the 1930s and throws light on the rise of anti- Semitism and Nazi propaganda activity before World War II, and emphasizes the friendship between the government leader Eamon de Valera and the republic's Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog throughout the war. His coverage extends into the 1990s. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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