“Sophie Jacobs From Edmond X Kapp Antibes 1926-7”
Sophie Jacobs born in Dublin, Ireland, Her father, an optician whose practice in 19 Nassau St. Dublin, is mentioned in Ulysses. Her Brother Bethel, a renowned physician & Irish international Rugby player, is mentioned in Finnegans Wake. Her sister Estella was one of the leading Irish artists of her generation & married poet & publisher Seamus O’ Sullivan. Sophie was a trained Opera Singer spending much time in Paris where she knew James Joyce. A portrait of her, by her cousin Louise Jacobs is in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.
Her family, The Solomons, are one of the oldest continuous lines of Jews in Ireland.