R. David Kasher on Parashat Pinhas: How to Read a Census
For my mother’s 75th birthday, we surprised her by taking her to visit her mother’s childhood home. I knew my grandmother had grown up in Los Angeles, but I didn’t know exactly where, and there were no living relatives whom I could ask. So I did what anyone seeking information does these days: I Googled my grandmother’s name, hoping something would pop up. That modern technology led me to an ancient one: the census. I found online copies of the first two censuses taken in my grandmother’s lifetime, one when she was 4½ and the next one when she was 15. The second one was the jackpot: I found…
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