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

by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

Book Overview

How the Jewish people went from farmers to merchants

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144877
• ISBN13: 9780691144870
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"