Jerumsalemdo

• i.e., Jewish ghetto in Trieste, a favorite haunt of Joyce's during his years in Trieste.

• Jerum → harem

Commentary

The old Jewish ghetto in Trieste (before it was largely destroyed by the Fascist regime in the 1930s) was very close to the fruit market (murketplots) in the Cittavecchia (the old city). It was also very close to the city's red light district. The following sentence contains a number of bits of Triestine dialect and slang; they should be regarded as having a lewd twist.

Jesus in Jerusalem: the Last Supper is thought to have been in Jerusalem. There is a Last Supper/Crucifixion/Easter theme here as well as the red light district. As usual, Joyce overlays various and contradictory themes on one another, here the holy and profane and political.

Easter in turn leads to the Easter Uprising, 1916, which seems to be a third theme running through this passage (Guns, Guns, Guns, etc.)