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Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints – Jewish social science and the analysis of Jewish statistics in the early 20th century

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  • Vallois, Nicolas

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The late 19th century saw the multiplication of statistical studies on Jewish populations. This literature is now known as “Jewish Statistics” or “Jewish Social Science” (JSS). This article focuses on the articles published in der Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden (Journal for Demography and Statistics of the Jews, ZDSJ). The ZDSJ was the main journal in JSS and appeared from 1905 until 1931. Existing scholarship on JSS has either focused on the influence of Zionism (Hart, 2000) or eugenics and race theory (Efron, 1994). This article proposes to relate JSS to the history of economics and statistics. As suggests the intellectual profile of the main contributors to the ZDSJ, we argue that JSS was a by-product of the German historical school in economics. Though JSS was intended to a mostly Jewish audience, its organization and methods were clearly inspired by those of German economists.

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  • Vallois, Nicolas, 2020. "Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints – Jewish social science and the analysis of Jewish statistics in the early 20th century," OSF Preprints smyzr, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:smyzr
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/smyzr
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