Otto Jaffe
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Sir Otto Moses Jaffe, JP, also spelt Jaffé, was a German-born British businessman, who was twice elected Lord Mayor of Belfast and was a leader of the Jewish community in the city.
Portrait by John Haynes-Williams
The history of the Jewish People in Ireland extends for almost a millennium. The Jewish community in Ireland has always been small in numbers in modern history, not exceeding 5,500 since at least 1891
Otto Jaffe
…make munitions. He was lavishly charitable and contributed to Queen's College, now Queen's University Belfast. Otto Jaffe took a keen interest in the Jewish community of Belfast. He was life-president of the Belfast Hebrew Congregation, which worshipped at the Great Victoria Street synagogue. His father established it in 1871…
Ballybough Jewish Cemetery gate lodge in 2020
Jewish wedding at the Waterford Courthouse, early September 1901
The former Jewish school in Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, Dublin
Grave of an unknown Jew in Castletroy, Limerick - now known to be Elsa Reininger, who committed suicide, rather than being returned to Austria in 1938