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Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk

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The sites and video timepoints
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Trinity Bridge 01:02
The Mikveh 03:21
The Synagogue 03:43
The Former Cemetery 05:41
Shalom Park 06:48
Jewtown 09:13

Mary Elmes Bridge 12:24
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Community  Notices  

Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk are happy to announce the following weddings: 

20th August 1891
  • The second Jewish wedding to be held in Cork Synagogue: Chaya Sorah Bat Eliezer Gavronsky/Abrahamson to Abraham Hillel Ben Yehuda Lieb Jackson


9th April 2000
  • The last Jewish wedding to be held in Cork Synagogue: Alexander Goldberg to Silke Mueter

In other news: 

1940s
  • The winners of this year's annual Purim fancy dress party are, as is often the case: The Goldberg family! 

1950s
  • Please note, there is a rota for getting kosher meat delivered on the train from Dublin. Please make sure that you get on the list, and if the train is late coming from Dublin, please cook it extra carefully.

1950s
  • Cheder (Sunday morning Jewish school) continues for all Jewish children at 9, South Terrace.

mid 1980s
  • The sad death is announced of the last Jewish resident in 'Jewtown', living in Monerea Terrace, Fanny Goldwater
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​Many chanukiot, as the new community celebrates Chanuka in City Hall. 

​The Ner Tamid, the "Everlasting Light", in the old synagogue
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The old minister's house in Monerea Terrace, now sadly dilapidated.
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Challa, apples and honey as the new community celebrates Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year
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Inside the former synagogue-
the Bimah, where the cantor would intone the prayers
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​​Inside the former synagogue - the Aron Kodesh, containing the Torah scrolls (view from the ladies' gallery)

A Timeline of Cork Jewish Community


​Mid/late 1500s
  • Francis Annyas/Anes, a Marrano Jew, elected mayor of Youghal

1725
  • First mention of a Jewish congregation in Cork which included a cemetery and shochet (kosher animal slaughterer for meat)

1881
  • New wave of immigrants, many from Lithuania. Prayers took place in a room with ten men.

1884
  • Congregation moved to a larger space on Malborough street

1885
  • Burial ground purchased at Curraghkippane

1891
  • Split in community - Cork Hebrew Congregation moved prayers to 25 South Terrace. Remnant of Israel stayed on Malborough street.
  • First Hebrew school in Ireland (9 and 10 South Terrace), South Terrace National School.

1892
  • 76 students enrolled in the South Terrace National School

1898
  • 87 students enrolled in the South Terrace National School

1900-1905
  • Cork Hebrew Congregation moved into 10 South Terrace
  • Remnant of Israel moved into 25 South Terrace

1915
  • The two prayer groups combine into Cork Hebrew Congregation and stay in 10 South Terrace

1930
  • South Terrace National School ceases to function

1977-1978
  • Gerald Goldberg elected Lord Mayor of Cork
  • Trinity Bridge erected

1989
  • Cork Gas Company donates land in the old Jewish residential area (nicknamed ‘Jewtown’ by locals) to create Shalom Park.

2011
  • Maddie Leach creates art instillation, Evening Echo, in Shalom Park, which becomes part of the Chanuka celebrations every year

2016
  • Synagogue closes
  • Munster Jewish Community formed by some members of West Cork's Jewish community

2019
  • Mary Elmes Bridge built - a walking and cycling bridge honouring a Cork woman who saved Jewish people in France during the Holocaust

2020
  • Cork Jewish Heritage Virtual Walk

 



Literature with a Cork Jewish subject matter includes:
 

A Land Not Theirs David Marcus (novel) 
The Hebrew Lesson Wolf Mankowitz (play/film script) 
Green Feather Boa Ruti Lachs (musical play script) 
Jewtown  Simon Lewis (poetry collection)



Links  

Cork City Council Walks webpage https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-heritage-open-day/walks/

Munster Jewish Community www.munsterjewishcommunity.com

Permanent exhibition: The Tsars, the Rosehills, and the Music Shop is at Cork City Public Museum in Fitzgeralds Park https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/


Cork City and County Archives http://www.corkarchives.ie/

Cork Folklore Project https://corkfolklore.org/

Cork City Library http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/

Simon Lewis: Jewtown published Doire Press
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David Goldberg: www.davidgoldberggallery.com

Stuart Rosenblatt: Irish Jewish Genealogical Society www.irishjewishroots.com

Malcolm Shifrin: Victorian Turkish Baths www.victorianturkishbath.org

Pop-Up Klezmer - Cork's klezmer band https://www.facebook.com/Pop-Up-Klezmer-300662833935894
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Wombat Media video production https://wombatmedia.ie/
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Credits

This project would not have been possible without the support of the following: Marnina Winkler. PhD candidate UCC, local Jewish historian, timeline researcher, and co-presenter; Val Davin of Munster Jewish Community , co-presenter and photographer; Niamh Twomey and Cork City Council for support and funding; David Goldberg and Filis Rosenberg for their memories and encouragement; Colum Pettit (fiddle) and Eileen Healy (fiddle and voice) of Pop-Up Klezmer, and Jarom Xochimith (cello) for their musical input; Fintan Lucy for videoing the scenes around Cork City; Dave Slowo of Wombat Media for editing the video. Also thanks to Stuart Rosenblatt and Malcolm Shifrin for permission to use their maps.

The Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk came about as a follow-on from research for the 2020 musical play, Green Feather Boa, set in Cork Jewish Community a hundred years earlier. Both projects kindly supported by Cork City Council. 
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