Introduction
Immigration in Ireland and Migrant-Led Activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23739721 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronit Lentin (0009-0008-4166-4950, Trinity College Dublin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Migrant Activism and Integration from below in Ireland (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230369245_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2506759437 |
| ISBN | 9780230369245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In 1890, a 14-year-old boy called Kalman Solomon Lentin left a small Lithuanian Jewish shtetl (township). Between 1868 and 1914, pogroms, discrimination, antisemitism, poverty and the threat of conscription to the tsar’s army caused two million Lithuanian Jews to emigrate. Most found their way to America, others made for South Africa and Britain, and a small number ended up in Ireland. Kalman Lentin, my grandfather-in-law, was one of the latter. Like other self-contained Eastern European Jewish communities, the shtetl he came from, Zhidik, near the Latvian border, with 900 Jewish residents, had synagogues, religious schools, bakeries, butcher’s shops and, of course, a graveyard. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Antisemitism · Archaeology · Butcher · Economic history · Emigration · Genealogy · Immigration · Judaism · Latvian · Lithuanian · Political science · Poverty · Refugee · History · Irish and British Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |