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

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  • Maristella Botticini

    (Bocconi University, Milan)

  • Zvi Eckstein

    (Tel Aviv University
    School of Economics at IDC Herzliya)

Abstract

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 answer to this question by applying the lens of economic analysis to the key facts of fifteen formative centuries of Jewish history. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Jewish, history, 70 CE, agrarian, illiterate, 1942, male literacy, education, urbanites, crafts, trade, moneylending, medicine, Old World, radical change, transformation, commercial expansion, business opportunities, worldwide Diaspora, religion Volume: Edition: 1 Year: 2013

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  • Maristella Botticini & Zvi Eckstein, 2013. "The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 1, number 9744.
    • Handle: RePEc:pup:pbooks:9744
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    Cited by:

    1. Mara P. Squicciarini & Nico Voigtländer, 2015. "Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 130(4), pages 1825-1883.
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    3. Ran ABRAMITZKY & Hanna HALABURDA, 2020. "Were Jews in Interwar Poland more Educated?," JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 86(3), pages 291-304, September.
    4. Guo Xu, 2015. "How Does Collective Reputation Affect Hiring? Selection and Sorting in an Online Labour Market," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 056, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.

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