As a minority within a minority, the Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation (DJPC) barely features in the history of either Irish Jewry or Britain’s Liberal Judaism (LJ) movement. Any discussions of the congregation have been superficial; it is dismissed as religiously lax in the orthodox-led, largely anecdotal Irish Jewish historiography, but as conservative in the LJ context. This article critically examines the DJPC in its own right and “from within” for the first time, drawing on local memory and a range of material, personal and archival. I begin by querying exactly what the synagogue’s founders were seeking to achieve in establishing an Irish outpost of Jewish reform. The incremental development of a distinctive Irish brand of progressive Judaism is then investigated through the formative influence of the DJPC’s primary institutional relationships: that with the local orthodox community, and that with the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues (ULPS) in London.

作为少数派中的少数派，都柏林犹太进步会（DJPC）在爱尔兰犹太人或英国的自由犹太教（LJ）运动的历史中几乎没有任何特征。对会众的任何讨论都是肤浅的；在正统派主导的，很大程度上是轶事的爱尔兰犹太史学中，它被视为宗教上的松懈，但在LJ语境下却被视为保守派。本文对DJPC进行了严格审查。首次以自己的权利，并“从内部”使用本地记忆以及一系列的材料，个人和档案资料。首先，我确切地询问犹太教堂的创始人在建立爱尔兰犹太人改革前哨基地时寻求实现的目标。然后，通过DJPC的主要机构关系（与当地东正教社区以及伦敦的自由与进步犹太会同盟（ULPS））的形成性影响，研究爱尔兰独特的进步犹太主义品牌的增量发展。