Abrahamson, Bloom, Huberman, and more... 10 Jewish links to Irish culture
Some of Ireland's prominent people of Jewish heritage, clockwise: Amy Huberman, Lenny Abrahamson, Bob Geldof
Filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson – director of movie classics like Adam & Paul, Garage and Room, as well as popular TV series Normal People – was a member of an Orthodox synagogue growing up in Rathfarnham, Dublin. His Polish grandfather came to Ireland in the 1930s. Abrahamson’s first foray into film was an interview with his grandad about his life growing up in small-town Eastern Europe. Abrahamson once described himself as “probably Ireland’s third most famous Jewish son” behind Chaim Herzog, who grew up on the same street and played with Abrahamson’s mother before becoming president of Israel, and Leopold Bloom.
