{"product_id":"9781400880218","title":"Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History","description":"\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eJewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e, a leading economic historian tells the real story of how Jewish Ireland--and Dublin's Little Jerusalem in particular--made ends meet from the 1870s, when the first Lithuanian Jewish immigrants landed in Dublin, to the late 1940s, just before the community began its dramatic decline.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e In 1866--the year Bloom was born--Dublin's Jewish population hardly existed, and on the eve of World War I it numbered barely three thousand. But this small group of people quickly found an economic niche in an era of depression, and developed a surprisingly vibrant web of institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e In a richly detailed, elegantly written blend of historical, economic, and demographic analysis, Cormac Ó Gráda examines the challenges this community faced. He asks how its patterns of child rearing, schooling, and cultural and religious behavior influenced its marital, fertility, and infant-mortality rates. He argues that the community's small size shaped its occupational profile and influenced its acculturation; it also compromised its viability in the long run.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e  \u003ci\u003eJewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e presents a fascinating portrait of a group of people in an unlikely location who, though small in number, comprised Ireland's most resilient immigrant community until the Celtic Tiger's immigration surge of the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151788654832,"sku":"9781400880218","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400880218_p0.jpg?v=1763712812","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400880218","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}