Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce
James Joyce''s Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world''s literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city''s bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pronounced. In Jewish...
James Joyce''s Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world''s literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city''s bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pronounced. In Jewish...
