The Shimura correspondence is a fundamental tool in the study of
half-integral weight modular forms. In this paper, we prove a Shimura-type
correspondence for spaces of half-integral weight cusp forms which transform
with a power of the Dedekind eta multiplier twisted by a Dirichlet character.
We prove that the lift of a cusp form of weight λ+1/2 and level N has
weight 2λ and level 6N, and is new at the primes 2 and 3 with
specified Atkin-Lehner eigenvalues. This precise information leads to
arithmetic applications. For a wide family of spaces of half-integral weight
modular forms we prove the existence of infinitely many primes â„“ which
give rise to quadratic congruences modulo arbitrary powers of â„“.Comment: 44 page