How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local … indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews …

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local … indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. Pogroms during the Black Death are a strong and robust predictor of violence against Jews …

How persistent are cultural traits? Using data on anti-Semitism in Germany, we find local continuity over 600 years …-era pogroms as an indicator for medieval anti-Semitism. They reliably predict violence against Jews in the 1920s, votes for the …