Geraldine Healy: Jewish community in Cork
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She describes how Jews arrived in two distinct waves in the eighteenth century and the nineteenth century, scattering after the Second World War. She describes the Cork synagogue and various Jewish religious traditions.
This interview was recorded as an audio track for a CFP DVD entitled If the Stones Could Speak.
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CFP_SR00389_healy_2010;
CFP_SR00505_healy_2013;
CFP_SR00510_healy_2014;
CFP_VR00542_healy_2015;
CFP_SR00700_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00701_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00709_healy_2019;
CFP_SR00710_healy_2019:
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CFP_SR00387_Sheehan_; CFP_SR00395_Speight; CFP_SR00421_Cronin.
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I did a project about six years ago on the Jewish community in Cork and it was a subject that was very close to my heart because my maternal grandparents lived in 31 Geraldine Place in the heart of what the local people affectionately call Jew Town. As David Marcus said in his autobiography Buried Memories, no cartographer actually has it listed as Jew Town on a map of Cork but it’s a distinct place known to everybody just like Ballyphehane or Blackpool or anywhere like that and very close to my heart so I began writing about the Jewish community up at the Folklore Project. I focused in on the history of the Jewish people and their presence in Cork City and some prominent members of the Jewish community who contributed so much so much to Cork life because the Jewish community in academic, economic, social, political circles contributed greatly to the fabric of Cork life and society and also a little bit about their history as they dispersed after the War from Cork.