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Tag: Jewish Demography
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How these 29 last names became a cheat code for researchers surveying American Jews
Asaf Elia-Shalev
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JTA
· 3 Apr
Ira Sheskin, a renowned American Jewish demographer, developed a technique using 29 distinctive Jewish last names to identify Jewish populations in surveys, avoiding the expense of widespread outreach.