The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492

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

• | Author: Maristella Botticini, Zvi Eckstein
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780691163512
• | ISBN-10: 0691163510