The chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492

The chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492 / Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein.

In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville t...

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Main Authors: Botticini, Maristella (Author), Eckstein, Zvi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Series:Princeton economic history of the Western world.
Subjects:
To 1500
Jews > History > To 1500.
Judaism > History > To 1500.
Jews > Economic conditions > To 1500.
HISTORY > Jewish.
HISTORY > World.
Jews
Jews > Economic conditions
Judaism
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? "The Chosen Few" presents a new answer to this question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the key facts of fifteen formative centuries of Jewish history.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) : maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index.
ISBN:1283539845
9781283539845
9781400842483
1400842484
0691144877
9780691144870
9786613852298
6613852295
Language:English.

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