In our search for Official Anti-Jewish Acts in foreign countries, in the Summer and Fall of 2020 we sent emails to organizations around the world in seven languages: Arabic, Croatian, Estonian, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish.
The emails were to let organizations know about the OAJA project, and to ask if they knew of any researchers interested in a job of looking for project Acts.
To make our emails easy for the recipients, we embedded our message in the body of the email itself, so viewers wouldn’t have to click on an unknown link. We also presented our information in English in the right column, and the target language on the left, in what we call split-screen emails.
The emails were sent to universities, libraries, government offices and other organizations that seemed to be associated in some way with Judaism or Jewish causes.
Most of the Subject lines in those emails read: Official Anti-Jewish Acts Project/ in (the foreign language) (Official Anti-Jewish Acts Project) (in English)
The list below shows the organizations we sent the split-screen emails to, with a link to a sample PDF of the split screen email in each language.
Surprisingly, (as of 12/31/2020) our project did not receive any useful results from these cold call emails.
1. Arabic
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Arabic:
| الموضوع: مشروع القوانين الرسمية المعادية لليهود/باللغة العربية (المشروع الرسمي للقوانين المعادية لليهود) |
- U.S. Embassy Cairo
- American Research Center in Egypt
- Office of Swig Program in Jewish Studies & Social Justice
- Jewish-Arab Center (JAC) at the University of Haifa
- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
- School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies
- Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, University of Washington
2. Croatian
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Croatian:
Predmet: Projekt „Službeni antižidovski propisi”/ na hrvatskom jeziku (Projekt „Službeni antižidovski propisi”)
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu
- Dubrovnik Libraries
- Narodna knjižnica
- Knjižnica “Nikola
- Knjižnice grada Z
- Centar za kulturu
- Dubrovačke knjižn
3. Estonian
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Estonian:
Teema: Projekt Official Anti-Jewish Acts/ Eesti keeles (ametlike antisemiitlike õigusaktide projekt)
- Estonian World
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- CER Conf. of Eur. Rabbis
- SA Eesti Mälu Instituu
- U.S. Embassy Tallinn
- European Jewish Congres
- Pärnu Central Library
- Estonian Library Network Consortium
- Estonian National Library
4. French
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in French:
Projet officiel de lois anti-juives/ en français (Projet officiel de lois anti-juives)
- Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris
- Bibliothèque Schoelcher
- University of Washington Libraries
- French collections at Cambridge University Library
- Cujas Library
- Canadian Council of Archives
- The American Library in Paris
- University of Bristol
- Cité du livre-Bibliothèque Méjanes
- JPR / Institute for Jewish Policy Research
- The Humanist Library of Sélestat
5. Portuguese
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Portuguese:
Assunto: em português (Projeto de Leis Antijudaicas Oficiais)
- The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading
- Universidade de Coimbra – Paço das Escolas
- Institut Dilpomático, Division of Archive and Library
- Jewish Community of Lisbon
- Ronald S. Lauder, President, World Jewish Congress
- Israeli Embassy of Lisbo
- Comunidade Judaica Masorti de Lisboa- Beit Israel
- Portuguese National Tourist Office
- Brigham Young University – Portugal: Historical Collections
6. Spanish
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Spanish:
Asunto: Proyecto de leyes oficiales antisemitas / en español (Proyecto de leyes oficiales antisemitas)
- The Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR)
- Asociacion Espanola de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios, Museologos y Documentalistas (ANABAD)
- Col·legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris-Documentalistes de Catalunya
- University of San Carlos
- University of Navarra
- University of Alcalá
- Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Biblioteca Pública Del Estado Manuel Alvar
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal Iván de Vargas
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal Mario Vargas Llosa
- Biblioteca Uned, Escuelas Pías
- Biblioteca Pública Municipal Eugenio Trías
7. Turkish
Click here to view a PDF of the actual split screen email sent to the organizations below with the following Subject line in Turkish:
Konuː Yahudi Karşıtı Resmi Eylem Projesi/ Türkçe (Yahudi Karşıtı Resmi Eylem Projesi)
- National Academic Network And Information Center
- Boğaziçi University Library
- National Library of Turkey – Millî Kütüphane
- Turkish Jewish Community
- The Institute of Turkish Studies
- American Research Institute in Turkey
- Council of Higher Education/Department of Recognition and Equivalence Services – ENIC-NARIC Turkey