Irish Jewish Museum
in Dublin, IrelandCategory: Attraction
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1A Walworth Rd, Wood Quay, Dublin 8, D08 T1F2, Ireland Print route »
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The Irish Jewish Museum (Irish: Músaem Giúdach na hÉireann, Hebrew: בֵּית הַמִּדְרָש הַגָּדוֹל "Great House of Learning") is a small museum located in the once highly Jewish populated area of Portobello, around the South Circular Road, Dublin 8, dedicated to the history of the Irish Jewish community.The museum was opened in June 1985 by Chaim Herzog who was then president of Israel and was born in Ireland. The museum is in a former Synagogue built in 1917 in two adjoining terraced houses on Walworth Road, off the South Circular Road. The surrounding area, known as Portobello, was previously a Jewish area, however, the large scale emigration that affected Ireland in the 1950s had a particularly strong effect on the Jewish population; there was also a migration to the suburbs and Dublin's main synagogue is now in Terenure. The synagogue is preserved, there are also artifacts on display and the museum houses genealogical records.
