A questionnaire with 2,087 questionsSourced
How do you record a whole way of life?
This questionnaire asked 2,087 questions.
The first volume of Der Mentsch, prepared after a Jewish ethnographic expedition, was printed in St. Petersburg in 1914. Its 2,087 questions traced traditional life from birth to death. War prevented the volume from being distributed.
The list of questions
shows the scale of what they hoped to save.
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