Lists represent a will to know,a desire to organize, to make sense, to possess and order information. The taming of information imagined by list-making is all the more important in moments of crisis and chaos. During one such moment, in the autumn of 1713, as plague ravaged the city of Prague and its Jewish ghetto, the offices of the Bohemian Chancery of the Habsburg Monarchy commissioned a list of Jewish welfare workers and appraised the salaries they received for providing relief for the beleaguered Prague Jews. This list names approximately seventy men and women who were devoted to plague response, and provides the salaries for some thirty-six more unnamed recruits working different tasks. It offers a window into how the Jewish community mobilized to face an epidemic, but also invites inquiry into cultures of record-keeping, and the relations between Jews and the state in the making of administrative knowledge. As a record of both contemporary events (the plague and its relief) and practices (list-making and record-keeping), a list such as this affords us an exciting vantage point for viewing intertwined attempts at social order and paper order.