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Limerick Boycott 1904

其他書名	Anti-Semitism in Ireland
出版	Mercier Press, 2005
主題	History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / IrelandHistory / JewishSocial Science / Discrimination
ISBN	18563545399781856354530
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AuMsAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In January 1904 the head of Limerick's Catholic organization the Arch-Confraternity of the Holy Family, Father John Creagh (1870-1947), delivered two antisemitic sermons at the city's Redemptorist Church. In the first, he accused Limerick's Jews, most of them recent immigrants from Lithuania, of dishonest trade practices and exploitation of the town's poorer classes; in the second, he called on the congregation to have no commercial dealings with Jews. The first sermon engendered physical attacks on some Jews, and the second was followed by a general anti-Jewish boycott in Limerick. Creagh's sermons were condemned by the Church hierarchy and some trade union leaders, but were widely supported by many of the residents. The violence and boycott took place in Limerick against the background of an economic crisis and rising antisemitism in Ireland. Due to the boycott, most of the Jews left the city. Includes facsimiles of documents, including letters and newspaper clippings.