Taking Stock

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

Introduction: Counting in Jewish Michal Kravel-ToviPart I. Counting the Dead: Iconic Numbers and Collective Memory1. Six Million: The Numerical Icon of the Holocaust Oren Baruch Stier2. 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. Kidron3. Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names, Collective Remembrance, and Forgetting in Israeli Culture Yael ZerubavelPart II. Counting the Living: Putting "the Jewish" in Social Science4. "Jewish Crime" by the Numbers, or Putting the "Social" in Jewish Social Science Mitchell B. Hart5. Counting People: The Co-Production of Ethnicity and Jewish Majority in Israel-Palestine Anat Leibler6. Wet Numbers: The Language of Continuity Crisis and the Work of Care among the Organized American Jewish Community Michal Kravel-ToviPart III. Counting Objects: Material Subjects and the Social Lives of Enumerated Things7. "Let's Start with the Big Ones:" Numbers, Thin Description and the 'Magic' of Yiddish at the Yiddish Book Center Josh Friedman8. 130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefilte Fish: Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover Vanessa L. OchsPostscript: Balancing Accounts: Commemoration and Commensuration Theodore M. PorterBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex