https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-0339
Abstract
Census reports—mainly the questions concerning language and nationality, as well as other similar inquiries—can be very useful to think about the everyday people of Central and Eastern Europe, in this case specifically about Subcarpathia. This examination of the census data from 1910, 1921, 1930, and 1941 (mainly from 1910 and 1930) can provide insights into the story of the Jewish (as well as non-Jewish) community of the town of Bilke. Such an examination can complicate our understanding of Subcarpathia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as modernity in general, and at the same time it can clarify our understanding of these same regions and movements. In this case the censuses concerning Bilke allow us to view a world that is not always in focus.
