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The chosen few: How education shaped Jewish history. 70 - 1492

2012 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 9780691144870 ;ISBN: 0691144877 ;ISBN: 9780691163512 ;ISBN: 0691163510 ;ISBN: 9781400842483 ;ISBN: 1400842484 ;EISBN: 9781400842483 ;EISBN: 1400842484 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400842483 ;OCLC: 804049023 ;LCCallNum: DS117

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    The chosen few: How education shaped Jewish history. 70 - 1492
  • Author: Botticini, Maristella ; Eckstein, Zvi
  • Subjects: Beruf ; Berufswahl ; Bildungsniveau ; Bildungsverhalten ; Business & Economics ; Economic conditions ; Economic History ; Economic impact analysis ; Economics ; Education ; Historical analysis ; History ; HRJ ; Israel ; Jewish Studies ; Jews ; JFSR1 ; Judaism ; Judentum ; Literacy ; RELIGION ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Sozialgeschichte ; To 1500 ; Welt ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; World
  • Description: 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 Fewpresents a new answer to this question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the key facts of fifteen formative centuries of Jewish history. Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE--most importantly, the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process. The Chosen Fewoffers a powerful new explanation of one of the most significant transformations in Jewish history while also providing fresh insights to the growing debate about the social and economic impact of religion.
  • Publisher: Princeton, NJ u.a: Princeton Univ. Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 344
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780691144870
    ISBN: 0691144877
    ISBN: 9780691163512
    ISBN: 0691163510
    ISBN: 9781400842483
    ISBN: 1400842484
    EISBN: 9781400842483
    EISBN: 1400842484
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400842483
    OCLC: 804049023
    LCCallNum: DS117
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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