Taking Stock : Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Counting in Jewish -- Part I. Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory -- 1 Six Million: The Numerical Icon of the Holocaust -- 2 Breathing Life into Iconic Numbers: Yad Vashem's Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project and the Constitution of a Posthumous Census of Six Million Holocaust Dead -- 3 Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names, Collective Remembrance, and Forgetting in Israeli Culture -- Part II. Counting the Living: Putting the "Jewish" in Social Science -- 4 Jewish "Crime" by the Numbers, or Putting the "Social" in Jewish Social Science -- 5 Counting People: The Co-production of Ethnicity and Jewish Majority in Israel-Palestine -- 6 Wet Numbers: The Language of Continuity Crisis and the Work of Care among the Organized American Jewish Community -- Part III. Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things -- 7 "Let's Start with the Big Ones": Numbers, Thin Description, and the Magic of Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center -- 8 "130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-Boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefilte Fish": Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover -- Postscript: Balancing Accounts: Commemoration and Commensuration -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

The contributors offer productive perspectives into ubiquitous yet often overlooked aspects of the modern Jewish experience.

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