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Ireland's Jewish community
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And IIRC one of the first of any Jewish person to hold such a level of elected authority within wider Europe.Rhys Essien wrote: »Don’t know if this was mentioned already but in 1555 William Annyas became the Mayor of Youghal becoming the first Jew to hold an elected position here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Annyas
Like any diaspora you tend to see patterns of roles they take up depending on the society they find themselves in. In the case of the Jewish Irish politics seems to have been their forte and clearly for quite a while, all the way back to the Cork langer Liam.
A lesser known factoid about Daniel O'Connell is that as well as seeking Catholic rights, also fought for Jewish rights within the British sphere of influence at the time. And he was among those who repealed laws concerning Jews(including wearing a yellow item of clothing to mark them out. The nazis didn't lick that stuff off a stone. It was called the Final Solution, mostly because all the other "solutions" were old hat). That seems to have struck a chord with Jews here and across the diaspora as another lesser known factoid is that one of the largest contributors for the relief of those suffering after the Famine here were Jews in Ireland and beyond. Including one of the Rothschilds who directly organised an aid programme funded by IIRC a 100,000 pounds, a huge sum at the time. They also fired aid at those Scots affected by the London driven land clearances*.
For all the more recent talk of The Rothschild conspiracy stuff, if you look at the history of the family in England anyway, it very much comes across as a family Who's Done Good™ trying to fit in and be accepted. But unlike all the other non "aristocratic" families who did good during the industrial revolution, who were after a while welcomed in because they had cash to spare, its clear they were always kept at a distance, and they knew it. Back then they were big into charity and patronage and being all around good eggs, almost to a fault, but it never seemed enough for the local blue bloods. They were still "Yids" with notions.
*While we Irish have many valid issues about how London dealt with the Famine, the Scottish land clearances were unabashedly aggressive towards the people, even quasi "genocidal". How Scots haven't burnt London to the ground over it since has always surprised me.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Ireland’s oldest Jewish cemetery to reopen after 40 years (The Irish Times, 15 July 2019)Ireland’s oldest Jewish cemetery is to be refurbished and reopened to the public more than 40 years since its closure, under new plans from Dublin City Council.
The council took ownership of the cemetery on Fairview Strand in Ballybough two years ago from the Dublin Jewish Board of Guardians, who could no longer afford its upkeep.
Founded in 1718, it is one of the earliest surviving Jewish burial grounds in Ireland or Britain and merits consideration for National Monument status, according to a conservation and management plan commissioned by the council.... The cemetery is bounded by a high wall and the only external indication of its presence is a plaque on the front of the mortuary house which states it was built in 5618, the Hebrew calendar date which translates to 1857 in the Gregorian calendar.
The mortuary house was built 139 years after the cemetery first opened, as a defence against grave robbery and the theft of headstones, and until recently was the residence of the cemetery caretaker. It is no longer habitable.
The cemetery has almost 150 headstones with inscriptions in both Hebrew and English, and holds about 200 graves. It was in use from 1718 until the end of the 19th century, when the Jewish community moved to the south side of the city and established a new cemetery near Dolphin’s Barn.
Just a handful of burials took place in Fairview in the early years of the 20th century, with the last interment in 1958. The cemetery officially closed in 1978.
The oldest surviving headstone commemorates Jacob Wills, who was born in France in 1701 and died in Dublin in 1777. The largest tomb belongs to Lewis Wormser Harris, a former alderman, who was been elected lord mayor of Dublin. He would have been the city’s first Jewish mayor but died the day before he was due to take office in 1908...
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