He and his brothers Max and Sol, were involved in the 1936 ‘Battle of Cable Street’ against the British Union of Fascists. In 1937, he joined the Connolly Column of the International Brigade and fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was captured in 1938 and released in February 1939. He went on to have a career in academia. 2/2
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Maurice Levitas died on 14 February 2001. He was born at Warren Street, in the Portobello area of Dublin. His parents, Harry Levitas and Leah Rick, having emigrated to Ireland from Lithuania and Latvia in 1912. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1933 and was also an active trade unionist. 1/2
Obituary:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/07/guardianobituaries1
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Briscoe was active in the IRA and Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence. He spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings and was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness. Briscoe was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1919 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA.
After independence he was a TD in the Oireachtas for 38 years.
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Robert Emmett Briscoe was born on 25 September 1894 in the Little Jerusalem neighbourhood of South Dublin. He was a son of Abraham Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke, both of whom were Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. The original family name in Lithuania is believed to have been Cherrick or Chasen. His brother Wolfe Tone Briscoe was named after Theobald Wolfe Tone.
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Ellen lived in Kilkenny and became intensely interested in the Irish language, seeing its vicissitudes reflected in the Hebrew language. In 1922, she was one of just four women elected to the Seanad, and the first Jew to serve as a Senator in Ireland. 2/2
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Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart (née Bischoffsheim) was born on 1 September 1857. She was a London-born Jewish woman who was best known as an Irish politician Gaelicist (President of the Gaelic League for a time), and philanthropist in Ireland. She has been called '"the most important Jewish woman in Irish history". 1/2
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Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog died on 25 July 1959. Rabbi Herzog served as rabbi of Belfast from 1916 to 1919 and was appointed rabbi of Dublin in 1919. A fluent speaker of the Irish language, he supported the First Dáil and the Irish republican cause during the Irish War of Independence, and became known as "the Sinn Féin Rabbi". He went on to serve as Chief Rabbi of Ireland between 1922 and 1936.
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She has been called "the most important Jewish woman in Irish history". Ellen lived in Kilkenny and became intensely interested in the Irish language, seeing its vicissitudes reflected in the Hebrew language. In 1922, she was one of just four women elected to the Seanad, and the first Jew to serve as a Senator in Ireland. 2/2
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Ellen Odette Cuffe died on 29th June 1933. The Countess of Desart (née Bischoffsheim) was a London-born Jewish woman who was best known as an Irish politician, Gaelicist (President of the Gaelic League for a time) and philanthropist in Ireland. 1/2
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Briscoe was active in the IRA and Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence. He spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings there and was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness. Briscoe was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1919 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA. After independence he was a TD in the Oireachtas for 38 years. 2/2
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