In this Book
- Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
summary
Taking Stock is a collection of lively, original essays that explore the cultures of enumeration that permeate contemporary and modern Jewish life. Speaking to the profound cultural investment in quantified forms of knowledge and representation—whether discussing the Holocaust or counting the numbers of Israeli and American Jews—these essays reveal a social life of Jewish numbers. As they trace the uses of numerical frameworks, they portray how Jews define, negotiate, and enact matters of Jewish collectivity. The contributors offer productive perspectives into ubiquitous yet often overlooked aspects of the modern Jewish experience.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction: Counting in Jewish
- pp. 1-26
- Part I. Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory
- Part II. Counting the Living: Putting the “Jewish” in Social Science
- Part III. Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things
- Bibliography
- pp. 231-252
- List of Contributors
- pp. 253-255
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253020574
Related ISBN(s)
9780253020475, 9780253020543
MARC Record
OCLC
951749848
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2016-06-27
Language
English
Open Access
No