The Chosen Few : : How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 / / Zvi Eckstein, Maristella Botticini.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. 70 Ce-1492. How many Jews were there , and Where and how did they Live ?
- Chapter 2. Were The Jews a Persecuted Minority?
- Chapter 3. The People of The Book, 200 Bce-200 Ce
- Chapter 4 The Economics of Hebrew Literacy in a World of Farmers
- Chapter 5. Jews in the Talmud Era, 200-650 The Chosen Few
- Chapter 6. From Farmers to Merchants, 750-1150
- Chapter 7. Educated Wandering Jews, 800-1250
- Chapter 8. Segregation or Choice?
- Chapter 9. The Mongol Shock
- Chapter 10. 1492 to Today
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter