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Taking Stock (The Modern Jewish Experience): Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

Taking Stock (The Modern Jewish Experience): Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life

by Deborah Dash Moore (Author), Michal Kravel - Tovi (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $107.26
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06 Jun 2016
ISBN 10: 0253020476
ISBN 13: 9780253020475

Media Reviews
Taking Stock is...an important contribution to a Jewish conversation about how we understand who we are and how we put this knowledge to use. The editors are to be commended for curating this argument in a way that will provoke further discussion and new consideration of quantitative data about individuals and communities. * Contemporary Jewry *
Author Bio

Michal Kravel-Tovi is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Her work has appeared in American Ethnologist, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation.