Do you personally know any Irish Jews?

Smashius_Clay

The Jewish population in Ireland is extremely small (1,930 in the 2006 census). I was wondering if anyone here knows or has ever met a Jew living in Ireland? I know Portobello in Dublin had a large Jewish population at one stage, apparently.

I don't just mean knowing people in the public eye, like Alan Shatter, but actually knowing ordinary, practicing Jewish people.

Ihatecuddles-old

Yeah, we have Jewish neighbours. I also have a friend who's Jewish.

Yes

Smashius_Clay

Smashius_Clay wrote: »

The Jewish population in Ireland is extremely small (1,930 in the 2006 census). I was wondering if anyone here knows or has ever met a Jew living in Ireland? I know Portobello in Dublin had a large Jewish population at one stage, apparently.

I don't just mean knowing people in the public eye, like Alan Shatter, but actually knowing ordinary, practicing Jewish people.

So about 1 in 2500 people in Jewish, most people will know or at least know of a Jew.

philologos

Smashius_Clay wrote: »

The Jewish population in Ireland is extremely small (1,930 in the 2006 census). I was wondering if anyone here knows or has ever met a Jew living in Ireland? I know Portobello in Dublin had a large Jewish population at one stage, apparently.

I don't just mean knowing people in the public eye, like Alan Shatter, but actually knowing ordinary, practicing Jewish people.

I've met a few. Some were friends of my aunt and uncle's family, and there was a Jewish guy in my year in school.

3ndahalfof6

This is taking the Christmas spirit to far.

Madam_X

One pal of mine - Israeli father, Irish mother.

minidazzler

I've met loads of Israeli Jews in Ireland. But no Irish Jews... In Cork we have a place called Jew Town where we keep them.

9959

Yes.

Sunnyisland

Never met Irish one,s,Was good friends with an Italian one a few years back.

Bassfish

Amy Huberman is half Jewish. There's a Zion road in Rathgar and apparently there's a Jewish golf course somewhere in the posh end of Dublin. There's also 'Jewtown' in cork which is pretty much just one street.

beerbaron

A friend of mine keeps a fork in the sugar bowl

tfitzgerald

My doctor is Jewish.

Madam_X

Bassfish wrote: »

There's also 'Jewtown' in cork which is pretty much just one street.

The Albert Road area on the way to Blackrock. There's a Shalom Park there.

9959

minidazzler wrote: »

I've met loads of Israeli Jews in Ireland. But no Irish Jews... In Cork we have a place called Jew Town where we keep them.

Disgusting reply.

nocoverart

minidazzler wrote: »

I've met loads of Israeli Jews in Ireland. But no Irish Jews... In Cork we have a place called Jew Town where we keep them.

Good grief! there should be a place where we can keep Cork people... preferably
a small inlet north of Siberia.

Dozen Wicked Words

Met an Irish junior Dr in my local hospital a few years ago, she was nice,very friendly, I lived in North London for 3 years and chatted about that a bit, and that came round to religion, thats the only reason I know she was Jewish. She said the Jewish community in Ireland had got smaller, even over the last few years. She wasn't necessarily keen to broadcast her religion. She wasn't ashamed of it, but the Muslim faith tends to be very heavily represented in the medical profession in Irish hospitals and just chose not to broadcast it. Saying that, none of the Muslim Dr's particularly broadcast their faith either.

Most moderate people don't really choose to shove their religion down peoples throat so I have no idea how many people of Jewish faith I have met who never bothered to tell me their religion.

minidazzler

9959 wrote: »

Disgusting reply.

nocoverart wrote: »

Good grief! there should be a place where we can keep Cork people... preferably
a small inlet north of Siberia.

Sorry, forgot humour is not allowed in AH :rolleyes:

If you've ever been to Jew Town in Cork you'd realise it's a sh1thole of a place. There are no jews living there now though.

9959

9959 wrote: »

Disgusting reply.

S'what it's called
http://www.corkhebrewcongregation.com/

Diabhal Beag

Yes. Her name is Sílock.

0ph0rce0

My Uncle is Irish, And he's a mean tight arsed git.

I'm pretty sure he is of the Jewish Community

gingernut125

Bassfish wrote: »

Amy Huberman is half Jewish. There's a Zion road in Rathgar and apparently there's a Jewish golf course somewhere in the posh end of Dublin. There's also 'Jewtown' in cork which is pretty much just one street.

Stratford college on Zion road is a Jewish school. There's a synagogue in Terenure also. I don't know if you'd classify the whole of Zion Road as Jewish though, there are at least two other (non Jewish) schools on it.

minidazzler

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

My Uncle is Irish, And he's a mean tight arsed git.

I'm pretty sure he is of the Jewish Community

Maybe he just has a bit of Cavan in him?

Duckworth_Luas

Dawn do a nice orange jews and and even nicer cranberry jews!

mikemac1

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

My Uncle is Irish, And he's a mean tight arsed git.

I'm pretty sure he is of the Jewish Community

Either that or he's from Cavan



dammit, minidazzler got there first!

My name is URL

I know a guy whose parents (I've never met them) are Irish Jews but he himself is an atheist.

nocoverart

minidazzler wrote: »

Sorry, forgot humour is not allowed in AH :rolleyes:

If you've ever been to Jew Town in Cork you'd realise it's a sh1thole of a place. There are no jews living there now though.

It's not really the Jew comment. I just can't stand people from Cork. You lot actually think it's the centre of the Universe, it's a feckin sh1t hole! I don't usually like generalising but you lot are really all the same.

My name is URL

My name is URL wrote: »

I know a guy whose parents (I've never met them) are Irish Jews but he himself is an atheist.

In the media it seems like most Jews are.

meoklmrk91

I don't know any Jews either Irish or otherwise.

To Alcohol

Yes. His great grandfather was emmigrating from Lithuania to the US and the ship they were on docked in Cobh to pick up passengers. His grandfather got off thinking he was in New York and the ship left without him.

My name is URL

Deleted User wrote: »

In the media it seems like most Jews are.

Many are. Jewish is an ethnicity as well as a religion.

Wibbs

Hung out with quite a few when I was growing up. Kids who didn't have to go to mass, but couldn't eat sausages at birthday parties and the like Though I remember one lad tried one. We were egging him on of course. Poor bugger actually threw up. Guilt I suppose. Kids can be right feckers, though he did throw up on the chief egger on so Karma baby I remember one guys granny was a brilliant teller of stories of old Dublin. Stories of the rising and the Flu epidemic of all things(apparently people were dying at a terrible rate and rarely talked about now). A fair number of them went to the US or the UK back in the 80's, just like a lot of my mates in general. One guy went to Israel, but came back cos and I quote "it's too fookin hot". The population declined a fair bit back then, with mostly older people left. Now it's on the rise. Fair few folks from eastern Europe and the like. Still know a couple now.

super_furry

Went out with a Jewish girl from Dublin for a few months. She was sound.

spcw

there used to be two jews in sackville street.

BUBBLE WRAP

I don't know a jew OP.

Madam_X

nocoverart wrote: »

I just can't stand people from Cork. You lot actually think it's the centre of the Universe, it's a feckin sh1t hole! I don't usually like generalising but you lot are really all the same.

That's like something a teenager would say. You may claim to not like generalising but I doubt it when you can make a false and very silly statement about tens of thousands of people you don't know, and "hate" them too.
Obviously it's not the centre of the universe - objectively not a sh1t-hole though; Kiev probably is.

eyeroad yearowl one

Bassfish wrote: »

Amy Huberman is half Jewish. There's a Zion road in Rathgar and apparently there's a Jewish golf course somewhere in the posh end of Dublin. There's also 'Jewtown' in cork which is pretty much just one street.

Does "half Jewish" mean the same as saying someone is "half protestant" or "half muslim"?

chughes

Bassfish wrote: »

Amy Huberman is half Jewish. There's a Zion road in Rathgar and apparently there's a Jewish golf course somewhere in the posh end of Dublin. There's also 'Jewtown' in cork which is pretty much just one street.

I think that's Edmondstown Golf Club. Apparently you are not allowed shout "fore" there

Red Hand

To Alcohol wrote: »

Yes. His great grandfather was emmigrating from Lithuania to the US and the ship they were on docked in Cobh to pick up passengers. His grandfather got off thinking he was in New York and the ship left without him.

Depending on how you look at it:

Greatest/worst thing that could have happened to him.

Maybe I have met/known Irish jews, but I don't go round asking people if they are or not.

Death and Taxes

I know two, both hard working sound blokes.
There are a good few around the Terenure area.

Wibbs

The Jews have a long and fascinating history in Ireland with many of them becoming prominent on a few fronts, even though they were small in number. Organised help in the great Famine, fair few of them were involved in struggle for our independence too. Show up in the arts too, the hero of Jimmy Joyce's Ulysses an ode to Dublin in many ways is a Dublin Jewish bloke. IIRC there was a Jewish museum in Dublin? Can vaguely remember going to it, but can't remember where it was/is.

super_furry

chughes wrote: »

I think that's Edmondstown Golf Club. Apparently you are not allowed shout "fore" there

Playing Skins golf is also frowned upon.

Outkast_IRE

I know someone with a jew-fro , does that count

charlemont

I hate to break it to ye but that area in Cork by Shalom Park is actually named NewTown and I doubt it contains any Jews now as its mostly very small houses.

Crann na Beatha

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Stheno

Wibbs wrote: »

The Jews have a long and fascinating history in Ireland with many of them becoming prominent on a few fronts, even though they were small in number. Organised help in the great Famine, fair few of them were involved in struggle for our independence too. Show up in the arts too, the hero of Jimmy Joyce's Ulysses an ode to Dublin in many ways is a Dublin Jewish bloke. IIRC there was a Jewish museum in Dublin? Can vaguely remember going to it, but can't remember where it was/is.

Portobello, near a very nice bakery

I've a friend who's Jewish he moved abroad to get married.

mikom

*Shouts*

"Free rashers"

*Irish Jews heads explode*

PhlegmyMoses

I interviewed Raphael Siev, who ran the Irish Jewish museum in Dublin, a few years back for an article I was doing. Remarkable character, if a little cranky in his old age.

Gyalist

Wibbs wrote: »

The Jews have a long and fascinating history in Ireland with many of them becoming prominent on a few fronts, even though they were small in number. Organised help in the great Famine, fair few of them were involved in struggle for our independence too. Show up in the arts too, the hero of Jimmy Joyce's Ulysses an ode to Dublin in many ways is a Dublin Jewish bloke. IIRC there was a Jewish museum in Dublin? Can vaguely remember going to it, but can't remember where it was/is.

The Jewish museum is in Portobello. A few years back I was helping a friend clear a house that she had recently bought in Portobello and we found documents in the attic dating back to the '30s that belonged to the matriarch of a certain prominent family. Things like Alien registration cards and letters.

I know 3 people (all related) with the Bloom surname, though I've never asked them if there is a connection to the character in Ulysses.

I used to play cricket at the old Carlisle Cricket Club in Kimmage and so met and became friends with a lot of Jewish people.

ProudDUB

My mothers optician was Jewish. Forget his name, but I remember being taken in to him for an eye exam when I was quite young. He must have been really good as my mother was incredibly paranoid about her eye sight, and wouldn't go to just anyone. He had a daughter who was a photographer. I remember my parents going to exhibitions of her work and wishing they could afford to buy some it.

I worked with a lad once whose father was Jewish, but he and his brother were raised as Catholics. He grew up not knowing his fathers side of the family as he was disowned by his family for marrying outside the faith. I remember reading an article a few years ago about how hard it was for Irish Jews to find Jewish partners as the population in Ireland is so small. A lot of them are moving to England to do so, which further diminished their numbers. Knew a lot of Jewish people when I lived in the US. All very sound people. Their weddings are BAD ASS too !

Strawberry Fields

I know a few Palestinians if that's any use.