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The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
The Chosen Few How Education Shaped Jewish History 701492 - Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Author: Maristella Botticini, 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 to Mangalore. What caused this radical change? T...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691144870
ISBN-10: 0691144877
Publication Date: 8/2/2012
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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