Some of the families that left Limerick due to the boycott were the Ginsbergs, the Jaffés (to Newcastle), the Weinronks (to South Africa), and the Goldbergs (to Leeds).[18] The Goldberg family ended up leaving Leeds and settling in Cork. Gerald Goldberg, a son of this migration, became Lord Mayor of Cork in 1977,[19] and the Marcus brothers, David and Louis, grandchildren of the boycott, would become hugely influential in Irish literature and Irish film, respectively.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_boycott
Just read the above on wikipedia and it's a bit distasteful the way they played it down. All Jewish families left Limerick shortly afterwards not just the immediate 5. Calling it a boycott as well rather than a pogrom. They were physcially attacked after a sustained violent campaign.
Goldberg's view;
The nature and scale of the violence Creagh caused has generated considerable debate. In April 1970, Gerald Goldberg[19] (whose family lived in Limerick in 1904) characterized it as a ‘near genocide perpetrated … against some 150 defenceless Jewish men, women and children’.[20]
Although he became somewhat more considered on the subject over the next 30 years, his continuing view of the violence as essentially pogromist https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/revisiting-the-limerick-pogrom-of-1904/#.YCaN02j7SUk
Just read the above on wikipedia and it's a bit distasteful the way they played it down. All Jewish families left Limerick shortly afterwards not just the immediate 5. Calling it a boycott as well rather than a pogrom. They were physcially attacked after a sustained violent campaign.
Goldberg's view;
The nature and scale of the violence Creagh caused has generated considerable debate. In April 1970, Gerald Goldberg[19] (whose family lived in Limerick in 1904) characterized it as a ‘near genocide perpetrated … against some 150 defenceless Jewish men, women and children’.[20]
Although he became somewhat more considered on the subject over the next 30 years, his continuing view of the violence as essentially pogromist https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/05/revisiting-the-limerick-pogrom-of-1904/#.YCaN02j7SUk
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