Irish Jewish Museum

The Irish Jewish Museum ( irl. Músaem Giúdach na hÉireann ) is a museum in Dublin dedicated to the history of the Irish Jewish community. Located in Portobello , near the South ring road, in a former synagogue building, built in 1917 on Welworth Road.

The opening of the museum took place in June 1985 in the presence of then-President of Israel Haim Herzog , born in Belfast, who lived in Ireland until 1936. The Portobello district had previously been home to a large number of Jews, but due to their mass emigration from Ireland in the 1950s, the Jewish population dropped significantly, and the main synagogue of Dublin was moved to the Tereniur district. The old synagogue building in Portobello has been preserved and used to open a museum in it.

The permanent exhibition of the museum contains a large number of artifacts related to the activities of the Jewish communities in Belfast , Cork , Derry , Drouda , Dublin , Limerick and Waterford over the past 150 years - photographs, paintings, documents and testimonies ^[1] . On the first floor there is an exposition on the business and social life of the Jewish community, while the hall located nearby recreates the furnishings of a typical kitchen in a Jewish house of the late XIX - early XX century kitchen depicting Shabbat .

On the second floor of the museum, the original interior of the synagogue with all ritual objects is preserved, as well as the Harold Smerling Gallery, where various items related to Judaism are represented ^[1] .