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Over time, strange people who came among us after terrible journeys ceased to be so strange. They became known, human, individual; not a threat but an enrichment
The names of the most prominent figures of Jewish-Irish history are well known. James Joyce’s Ulysses follows the Dublin meanderings of its Jewish protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, became a celebrated figure both in Ireland and abroad, and his sons, Joe and Ben, carried on his legacies in the military and in politics. But, as a small museum in Dublin’s Portobello neighborhood proves, there is all that and more to learn and celebrate about the two cultures. Since its founding in 1985, the Irish Jewish Museum has educated visitors of all fa...