Taking stock : cultures of enumeration in contemporary Jewish life / edited by Michal Kravel-Tovi and Deborah Dash Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kravel-Tovi, Michal.

Moore, Deborah Dash, 1946-

Series:

Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)

The modern Jewish experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Social life and customs.

Jews.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory

1 Six Million: The Numerical Icon of the Holocaust / Oren Baruch Stier Stier, Oren Baruch 29

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 / Carol A. Kidron Kidron, Carol A. 47

3 Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names, Collective Remembrance, and Forgetting in Israeli Culture / Yael Zerubavel Zerubavel, Yael 69

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 / Mitchell B. Hart Hart, Mitchell B. 95

5 Counting People: The Co-production of Ethnicity and Jewish Majority in Israel-Palestine / Anat Leibler Leibler, Anat 114

6 Wet Numbers: The Language of Continuity Crisis and the Work of Care among the Organized American Jewish Community / Michal Kravel-Tovi Kravel-Tovi, Michal 141

Part III Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things

7 "Lets Start with the Big Ones": Numbers, Thin Description, and the Magic of Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center / Joshua B. Friedman Friedman, Joshua B. 167

8 "130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-Boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefllte Fish": Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover / Vanessa L. Ochs Ochs, Vanessa L. 196.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.

ISBN:

0253020476

9780253020475

0253020549

9780253020543

OCLC:

920017449