how each plan refers to its city's history

The city's own past

Amsterdam's plan recalls the deportation of about 80 per cent of the city's Jews and the mayor's apology for the city's part in it, and New York's recalls the 23 Sephardim who were the city's first Jewish immigrants, while Bern's plan refers only to the city's earlier plans. From the 45 local plans on antisemitism that we collected, we list each passage that refers to the past with the kind of past it names, the period, the page and, where the document is not in English, an English gloss.

 

These passages come from the plans coded so far. An AI agent coded each plan once from the Lab's codebook. Drafts and earlier versions of a plan were coded as separate documents.

Which pasts does each plan recall?

Each cell counts the passages in that place's coded documents. Hover over a column heading for what it covers, and click a number to read the passages.

Do plans that recall persecution in their own city commit to remembrance and education?

Each row gives the plan's number of measures and the share of them in each group of strategies, from the anti-antisemitism strategies page. Remembrance includes Holocaust commemoration, Jewish heritage and other commemoration; education includes schools, adult education and youth work; security includes the protection of Jewish sites, policing and safety zones. A measure can belong to more than one group.

Where does a plan tie the past to a present measure?

The passages

All passages are in past.csv, one row per passage.

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.