History of the Jews in Ireland

===Limerick Boycott===

===Limerick Boycott===

The economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in [[Limerick City]] in the first decade of the 20th century is known as the [[Limerick Boycott]] (and sometimes known as the Limerick Pogrom) and caused many Jews to leave the city. It was instigated by an influential [[Redemptorist]] priest, Father [[John Creagh]] who called for a boycott during a sermon in January 1904. A teenager, John Raleigh, was arrested by the police and imprisoned for a month for attacking Rabbi Elias Levin, the community's rabbi, but returned home to a welcoming throng. According to an [[Royal Irish Constabulary|RIC]] report, 5 Jewish families left Limerick "owing directly to the agitation" and 26 families remained. Some went to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], where trans-Atlantic passenger ships docked at [[Cobh]] (then known as Queenstown). They intended to travel to [[United States|America]]. [[Gerald Goldberg]], a son of this migration, became [[Lord Mayor of Cork]] in 1977. In 1970, Goldberg characterized it as a ‘near genocide perpetrated … against some 150 defenceless Jewish men, women and children’ and that Jews did not ‘need a dictionary to define a pogrom’{{cite web | title=Revisiting the 'Limerick Pogrom' of 1904 – the Irish Story | url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/revisiting-the-limerick-pogrom-of-1904/ }}

The economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in [[Limerick City]] in the first decade of the 20th century is known as the [[Limerick Boycott]] (and sometimes known as the Limerick Pogrom) and caused many Jews to leave the city. It was instigated by an influential [[Redemptorist]] priest, Father [[John Creagh]] who called for a boycott during a sermon in January 1904. A teenager, John Raleigh, was arrested by the police and imprisoned for a month for attacking Rabbi Elias Levin, the community's rabbi, but returned home to a welcoming throng. According to an [[Royal Irish Constabulary|RIC]] report, 5 Jewish families left Limerick "owing directly to the agitation" and 26 families remained. Some went to [[Cork (city)|Cork]], where trans-Atlantic passenger ships docked at [[Cobh]] (then known as Queenstown). They intended to travel to [[United States|America]]. [[Gerald Goldberg]], a son of this migration, became [[Lord Mayor of Cork]] in 1977. In 1970, Goldberg characterized it as a "near genocide perpetrated … against some 150 defenceless Jewish men, women and children" and that Jews did not "need a dictionary to define a pogrom".{{cite web | title=Revisiting the 'Limerick Pogrom' of 1904 – the Irish Story | url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/revisiting-the-limerick-pogrom-of-1904/ }}

[[File:LimerickJewishGrave.JPG|left|thumb|Grave of an unknown Jew in [[Castletroy]], Limerick - now known to be Elsa Reininger, who committed suicide, rather than being returned to Austria in 1938{{cite web | last1=Ryan | first1=Des | title=Elsa Reininger: A Forgotten Victim of Adolf Hitler's Persecution of the Jews | url=https://www.academia.edu/44357582 }}]]

[[File:LimerickJewishGrave.JPG|left|thumb|Grave of an unknown Jew in [[Castletroy]], Limerick - now known to be Elsa Reininger, who committed suicide, rather than being returned to Austria in 1938{{cite web | last1=Ryan | first1=Des | title=Elsa Reininger: A Forgotten Victim of Adolf Hitler's Persecution of the Jews | url=https://www.academia.edu/44357582 }}]]