JOURNAL OF THE IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY

128SAOTHAR 13'The Dublin Jewish Dramatic Society Presents(in aid of the Ukrainian Jews' Relief Fund)the following playsSpecial Pleading by Bernard DuffySpreading the News by Lady GregoryDer DoJaor (in Yiddish) by Sholom AleichemAbigail by David Pinskion Sunday, April 2, 1922'54Twenty years after James Connolly's election campaign among Dublin's Jewish community, hisson Roddy had maintained that link. And since it is a tradition among Jews to mark a birthday with theYiddish wish to livebiz hundert un tzvantzik! (for 120 years), it is particularly appropriate to now markthe 120th anniversary of James Connolly' s birth in 1868 with a reproduction of his Election Manifestoto the Jewish workers of Dublin in their own Yiddish language.Manus O'RiordanNotes1. The Municipal Elections, January 15th, 1902, Irish Jewish Museum archives.2. James Connolly Election Manifesto (in the Yiddish language), ILB 300 p.ll Item 81, National Library ofIreland (NLI).•3. Sid Resnick to Manus O'Riordan, 12 May, 1987.4. 'The Ideal Government of the Jew', Workers' Republic, 24 September, 1898.5. Workers'Republic, 30 December, 1899.6. Manus O'Riordan, 'Anti-Semitism in Irish Politics - The Sinn Fein Tradition', The Irish Jewish Yearbook,1984-1985.7. James A. Stevenson, 'James Connolly and Daniel de Leon: The Personal Aspects of de Leon's influenceamong Irish and British Militants', 1978, (unpublished).8. James Connolly to lC. Matheson, 27 September, 1907, O'Brien Papers, NLI.9. The Socialist, May, 1903.10. ibid.11. Justice, 7 October, 1899. Hyndman subsequently reversed his pro-Boer stand in favour of the Britishimperialist position.12. Justice, 21'October, 1899. For a detailed account of this controversy see Edmund Silberner, 'British Socialismand the Jews', Historia Judaica, April, 1952.13. Andrew Rothstein to Manus O'Riordan, 19 February, 1987. Born in 1898, Andrew Rothstein is a foundationmember (1920) of the Cornmunist Party of Great Britain.14. Walter Kendall, The Revolutionary Movement in Britain, 1900-21, (London, 1969), p. 332.15. Irish Socialist Republican Party minutes, October 5, 14 and 21, 1902, NLI.16. Boris Kahan to James Connolly, 19 October, 1902, O'Brien Papers, NLI.17. ISRP minutes, November 14 and 23,1901, NLI .. 18. C. Desmond Greaves, The Life and Times of James Connolly, (London, 1961), p. 110.19. Census of PopUlation, 1911. .20. The United Irishman, 23 January, 1904. Quoted more fully by Manus O'Riordan, in Dublin Jewish News,March-April 1979 and in Morning Freiheit (New York), 17 February, 1980.21. Louis Hyman, The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times to 1910, (Shannon, 1972), p. 161.22. ISRP minutes, 23 July, 1901, NLI. .23. Census of Population street-returns 1901 and 1911, Public Records Office.24. Maurice Levitas to Manus O'Riordan, 25 October, 1986. Included in 'Irish and Jewish Volunteers in theSpanish Anti-Fascist War', a 50th anniversary lecture by Manus O'Riordanwith particular reference to thestory of an Irish-born Jewish Volunteer, Maurice Levitas, delivered at the Irish Jewish Museum, 15 November,1987. .25. Louis Harrap, 'The Bund Revisited', Jewish Currents, (New York), February and April, 1974.