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A thread beaded with some gems from Irish advocates of Palestinians I encountered in recent dys, following the much-ado-about-nothing of #sallyrooney 's boycott of Native Hebrew-Readers:
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1. Limerick boycott 1904: The economic boycott of the Jewish community lasted over two years.
2. 3 months after Hitler’s rise to power, the head of the Irish mission in Berlin, Leo McCauley, noted a rise in inquiries about immigration to Ireland from German Jews and Jews of Polish nationality.
3. “As far as possible the legation has discouraged such persons from going to Ireland”, he wrote to Dublin.
In a revealing aside, McCauley added that Jewish refugees had “to some extent . . . brought the trouble [on] themselves”.
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This is a short #2019inReview thread on some of the amazing women whose contributions to our cultural life influenced and excited me this year and that I wanted to share with the twitter world. 1/
I'm part of the #twitterstorians and my job requires me to read a lot of books by men and women. But I this year for my pleasure reading, I chose to only pick books by the amazing women of the literary world. I didn't love every book, but some of them blew me away. 2/
If you haven't picked up a copy of @jesmimi Sing, Unburied, Sing, do not walk, RUN to your nearest bookstore. It's haunting, beautiful, and timely. I read it just before @TayariJones piercing novel, An American Marriage (which I was late to!) and they are both fantastic. 3/
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