Ulysses | Lost in Little Jerusalem: Leopold Bloom and Irish Jewry
In the following essay, O Grada questions the validity of Joyce’s familiarity with the Jewish community in Dublin and, therefore, the details and makeup of his characters and their surroundings in Ulysses.
James Joyce left Dublin for good in October 1904 at the age of twenty-two. Dublin, Of course, never left him: ‘‘all my books are about Dublin,’’ he liked to say. And the Joyce household’s frequent address changes and Joyce’s own flaneur habits meant that he knew his Dublin well. In Ulysses he wanted ‘‘to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed from my book’’ (as cited in Delany 10; see also Bulson). But how much of the topographical and other detail in Ulysses did he...
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