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| Title: | Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany,” Quarterly |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | Leah Platt Boustan Saumitra Jha Matthew Kahn Deirdre Mccloskey Omer Moav Joel Mokyr Nathan Nunn Emily Oster Steve Pischke Shanker Satyanath Kurt Schmidheiny Andrei Shleifer Yannay Spitzer Guido Tabellini Peter Temin Matthias Thoenig Jaume Ventura For Nico Voigtländer Hans-joachim Voth Efraim Benmelech Marianne Bertr Alberto Bisin Michael Bordo Davide Cantoni Dora Costa Ernesto Dal Raquel Fernández Jordi Galí Paola Giuliano Claudia Goldin Avner Greif Tarek Hassan Rick Hornbeck |
| Description: | How persistent are cultural traits? Using data on anti-Semitism in Germany, we find local continuity over 600 years. Jews were often blamed when the Black Death killed at least a third of Europe’s population during 1348–50. We use plague-era pogroms as an indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. They reliably predict violence against Jews in the 1920s, votes for the Nazi Party, deportations after 1933, attacks on synagogues, and letters to Der Stürmer. We also identify areas where persistence was lower: cities with high levels of trade or immigration. Finally, we show that our results are not driven by political extremism or by different attitudes toward violence. * We thank the editor, Larry Katz, and four anonymous referees, as well as Daron Acemoglu, Sascha Becker |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/73661 |
| Other Identifier: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.657.1425 http://thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5278Z.pdf |
| AMAD ID: | 568393 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
