Limerick boycott
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The Limerick boycott, also known as the Limerick pogrom, was an economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in Limerick, Ireland, between 1904 and 1906. It was accompanied by assaults, s
John Creagh, who incited the boycott
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore is a British historian, television presenter and author of history books and novels, including Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem: The Biography, The Romanovs
Limerick boycott
…respectively. Among the Jaffé family that left Limerick due to the boycott was Henry Jaffé, the grandfather of the journalist and popular historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and of his brother Hugh. But Montefiore's great-great-grandparents Benjamin and Rachel remained in Limerick and were living in Catherine St. in 1911…
Sebag Montefiore in 2018
Montefiore giving an author talk at Politics and Prose on The World: A Family History (20 May 2023)