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8 - Promised Lands, Chosen Races

from Part II - Strategies in Times of Retrenchment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2026

Eugenio Biagini
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter continues the discussion of the centrality of the Holy Land in both the imaginary and the actual politics of the Irish religious minorities. In 1926 the Chief Rabbi of the Irish Free State, Isaac Herzog, moved to Jerusalem and to a much more prestigious Chief Rabbinate. The chapter follows the development of his philosophy, his interaction with various Zionists groups, and the parallel development of an Irish Protestant Zionism (Irish Protestants held positions of power and influence in the administration of the Mandate). If the Mandate was part of the new liberal empire, it was also a military frontier, a new Ulster. The Hebron riots of 1928 generated a strong reaction among both Irish minorities, with the development of a vocal Christian Zionism in Éire and among southern Irish Protestants serving in Palestine. From the early 1930s a renewal of anti-Semitism in Continental Europe added to the significance and urgency of Zionism. The chapter then follows the response of the authorities to the question of Jewish refugees, with three case studies: Palestine itself, the Irish Free State (which became Éire in 1937), and Northern Ireland.

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