Hi Everyone,
I was just in Dublin found out about this fascinating little Irish Jewish Museum. The website is: http://www.jewishireland.org/museum.html
Whether you are jewish or not, I would whole heartedly recommend this if you are going to be in Dublin. By the way, the blog The Camel Ate My Homework (http://thecamelatemyhomework.tumblr.com/) wrote a review on it.
Edited by: brodiem
Regarding the "Jewish bakery"...I haven't been there in donkeys' years!
Maybe it went the same way as the old Swastika Laundry...
LOL #5 I'm still amazed that they got away with that for so long!
Right into the mid-60s, I believe...their vans with the logo/emblem were a well-known feature of the Dublin landscape...
Ireland remained a very sheltered and insular place because of WW2 neutrality...would have been unthinkable in most other places, no doubt...
Btw Dandelion, I'm sure this correspondence is a mystery to any non-Irish reading...and maybe even a few Irish ones!...
Right into the mid-60s, I believe
Longer than that even. There's a Swastika Laundry van clearly visible in the photos from the wreckage of the Dublin bombings in 1974. I remember seeing that in one of the books about the bombings.
By gum, Dandelion, I didn't realise they were still on the go at that stage...will have to keep an eye out for those photos...thank you for this interesting info...
The jewish museum in Budapest is quite interesting as well, as well as the whole Grand Synagogue complex http://jewish.hu/view.php?clabel=turak