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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

A message from an Irish Jew

by
Marc Tracy
March 17, 2011
James Joyce’s drawing of Leopold Bloom.(printed&bound)
James Joyce’s drawing of Leopold Bloom.(printed&bound)

Bloom: Three cheers for Israel! Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God. … Well, his uncle was a jew. Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me.

Erin Go Bragh and all that!

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.