Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
A message from an Irish Jew
March 17, 2011
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.
