the plans and each place's Jewish population

Jewish communities

We set the local plans on antisemitism that we collected, 45 plans from 42 places, beside the size of the Jewish community in each place. We then compared the plans on three questions: whether a plan is written about antisemitism alone or about racism in general, which definition it names, and how much it says about Israel, the police or the Holocaust. For each question we counted the plans on each side.

 

The comparison is most direct for the ten places where a census or survey counted the residents who give Judaism as their religion or estimated the number who are Jewish: Glen Eira, Waverley, New York City, Randwick, Port Phillip, Bern, Greater Manchester, Hunters Hill, Liverpool and Vienna. Germany and Denmark count only registered members of Jewish communities. We placed those eight cities in the bands by that count and marked them †. Many Jews do not register, so the Jewish share of residents in those cities is higher than the figure shown. France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Colombia publish no local figure, and their places appear in a row of their own. The 45 plans come from 15 countries, so a difference by community size is also a difference by country: every German plan except Dresden's is a plan on antisemitism alone.

Jewish share of residents, by plan

Each image is the first page of a place's latest plan, placed by the Jewish share of its residents on a logarithmic scale, which spreads out the small shares. A dashed edge marks a share counted from registered community members only, which is lower than a census share. Click one to open the plan's page.

Are the plans of places with larger Jewish communities more often plans on antisemitism alone?

Which definition of antisemitism do the plans name?

How much do the plans say about Israel, the police and the Holocaust?

Each figure is the number of words on a topic per 1,000 words of the place's latest plan, counted as on the Word profiles page, which lists the words counted for each topic.

Figures for each place with a plan: the Jewish population, its source and area, the median age, and every figure on religious stream and origin

Religious stream and origin

Sources

England and Wales: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021, religion by age for each local authority. Scotland: National Records of Scotland, Census 2022, table UV205a. Canada: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census, table 98-10-0354. Australia: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011, 2016 and 2021 censuses, religion by age for each local government area. New Zealand: Stats NZ, 2023 Census. We estimated the median age within ten-year bands, by the same method for every country. Northern Ireland publishes the Jewish population only for Northern Ireland as a whole. The figures for every place are in jewish_age_profiles.csv.

Religious stream and origin: the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (synagogue membership by stream, and estimates of the strictly Orthodox population), census tables from the Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada on birthplace, ethnic origin and language, community studies held by the Berman Jewish DataBank (including the UJA-Federation study of New York, 2023), the Survey of Jews in Canada (2018), the Australian census reports of Graham and Markus and the Gen17 survey, membership statistics of the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany (ZWST), and the Swiss federal census. In jewish_composition.csv, each figure has its source, page or table, and year.

a project of

This site is a team project of the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism, housed in the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto.

Ron Levi and Sol Goldberg
ron.levi@utoronto.ca

Research Team: Cypress Chernik, Lir Josefsohn, and Arianna Seijts, all of whom are undergraduate interns at the Lab for the Global Study of Antisemitism.

This is a work in progress. Corrections are welcome.