Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Anderson, Robert W.; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark

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“…Economic shocks in general made Jewish communities more vulnerable to violence as shown by Anderson et al (2016). Patterns of economic complementarity and substitutability may also have shaped the vulnerability of Jewish communities as Jha's hypothesis suggests (Jha (2013(Jha ( , 2014).…”

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Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

Finley

Koyama

2016

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This paper explores the institutional determinants of persecution by studying the intensity of the Black Death pogroms in the Holy Roman Empire. Political fragmentation exacerbated competition for the rents generated by Jewish moneylending. This competition made Jewish communities vulnerable during periods of crisis. We test this hypothesis using data on the intensity of pogroms. In line with our model, we find that communities governed by Archbishoprics, Bishoprics, and Imperial Free Cities experienced more intense and violent persecutions than did those governed by the emperor or by secular princes. We discuss the implications that this has for the enforcement of the rule of law in weak states.

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“…Anderson, Johnson, and Koyama (2016) explore the economic and climatic factors behind Jewish persecutions throughout medieval and early modern Europe. They find that periods of cold temperature lowered agricultural productivity and made persecutions more likely and that this effect is largest in areas with weaker states.…”

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Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

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Koyama

2016

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“…In this article, I examine expulsions of Jews in the medieval western Holy Roman Empire. In related research, Johnson and Koyama and coauthors (Finley and Koyama 2018;Johnson and Koyama 2019;Anderson, Johnson, and Koyama 2017) have investigated antisemitic violence in medieval Europe. They do not differentiate between expulsion and mob violence, as they are interested in all types of religious persecution.…”

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Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire

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2019

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Policies excluding ethnoracial and religious minorities reinforce the power of political elites. This study addresses an extreme case of exclusion, urban expulsions of Jews in the medieval western Holy Roman Empire. Expulsions were official edicts proclaimed by Christian princes, lords, or town councils, whomever ruled a territory. Changing religious and political culture, in the form of new value on community righteousness and the beginning of territorialization, provided incentives for polities to expel their Jewish residents. Using a new database of Jewish settlement and city development in the Western Holy Roman Empire 1000-1520 CE, I show that the relational structure of political power between Christian elites could insulate or expose Jewish communities to political contests of the time. Jews were derided, lesser members of Christian society, but in spite of increasing focus on Christian piety and legislating community purity, most cities did not expel their Jewish residents. City rulers that did expel were attempting to solve challenges for sovereignty through their policies towards Jews.

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“…1550-1850) was a contractionary shock. 2 Our empirical strategy is similar in spirit to that of Dell et al (2012), who examine the link between temperature and GDP per capita during the post World War II period by employing panel data estimation. The objective is thus to obtain the best possible estimate of the reduced-form impact from temperature on labor productivity.…”

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Climate Shocks and (Very) Long-Run Productivity

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2015

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The present study examines the link between temperature and long-run productivity for a balanced panel of 21 countries, covering the period 1000-1800 CE. Collectively the countries examined accounted for about 2/3 of the global population by 1700. Each epoch in the analysis is a century long, which thus allows time for human adaptation after a temperature shock has occurred. Our principal …nding is that lower temperatures worked to reduce productivity growth during the period in focus, consistent with contributions to the literature in economic history that argue the Little Ice Age was as a contractionary shock.

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Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800

Cited by 136 publications

References 125 publications

Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire

Contexts of State Violence: Jewish Expulsions in the Holy Roman Empire

Climate Shocks and (Very) Long-Run Productivity

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