{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.007947019867549669, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.573913043478261, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
In search of Jewish footprints in the West of Ireland

ABSTRACT This article explores the challenges Jewish immigrants faced in establishing new lives and livelihoods in the West of Ireland at the end of the nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century. It argues that experiences of settlement by a minority community involved layers of complexity shaped by national interests and local encounters. Negotiating expectations of a nation pursuing political and economic independence raised challenges for Jewish migrants and refugees. This article highlights the delicate and tense relationship between the entrepreneurial hopes of Jewish businessmen and the nationalist economic discourse that politicized ideas of who was welcome in a national economy.