History of Jewish Statistics
From the beginning of the twentieth century, leaders of the nascent Zionist movement saw statistics as a lever for building a Jewish state. More generally, other Jewish intellectuals, Zionists and non-Zionists alike, took part in the development of “Jewish statistics†or “Jewish social sciences,†expressions designating all statistical studies and surveys carried out on Jewish populations.
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From the beginning of the twentieth century, leaders of the nascent Zionist movement saw statistics as a lever for building a Jewish state. More generally, other Jewish intellectuals, Zionists and non-Zionists alike, took part in the development of “Jewish statistics†or “Jewish social sciences,†expressions designating all statistical studies and surveys carried out on Jewish populations.
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