LEADER 00000cam a2200649Ii 4500 001 ocn805517746 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040502.6 006 m o d 007 cr un|---uuuuu 008 120806t20122012ctub ob 001 0 eng d 019 804049023|a809977160|a817806738 020 1283539845 020 9781283539845 020 9781400842483|q(e-book) 020 1400842484|q(e-book) 020 |z9780691144870|q(alkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)805517746|z(OCoLC)804049023|z(OCoLC)809977160 |z(OCoLC)817806738 040 IDEBK|beng|erda|epn|cIDEBK|dOCLCQ|dEBLCP|dOCLCQ|dYDXCP |dE7B|dN$T|dCDX|dJSTOR|dOCLCF|dCN3GA|dOCLCO|dP@U|dMOU|dCUS |dDEBSZ|dCOO|dDEBBG|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 DS117 .B68 2012 072 7 HRJ|2bicssc 082 04 909.04924|a909/.04924 090 DS117 .B68 2012 100 1 Botticini, Maristella,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/nr2003008273|eauthor. 245 14 The chosen few :|bhow education shaped Jewish history, 70- 1492 /|cMaristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein. 264 1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2012] 264 4 |c©2012 300 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) :|bmaps. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 The Princeton economic history of the Western world 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-316) and index. 505 0 70 CE-1492 : How many Jews were there, and where and how did they live? From Jesus to Muhammad (1 CE-622) : a world of farmers ; From Muhammad to Hulagu Khan (622-1258) : farmers to merchants ; From Hulagu Khan to Tomás de Torquemada (1258-1492) : the end of the Golden Age ; Jewish history, 70 CE-1492 : puzzles -- Were the Jews a persecuted minority? Restrictions on Jewish economic activities ; Taxation discrimination ; Physical versus portable human capital ; Self-segregated religious minority ; The economics of small minorities ; Summary -- The people of the Book, 200 BCE-200 CE. The two pillars of Judaism from Ezra to Hillel (500-50 BCE) : the temple and the Torah ; The lever of Judaism : education as a religious norm ; The destruction of the second temple : from ritual sacrifices to Torah reading and study ; The legacy of Rabbinic Judaism : the Mishna and universal primary education, 10 CE-200 ; Judaism and education : the unique link in the world of Mishna -- The economics of Hebrew literacy in a world of farmers. Heterogeneity and the choices facing Jewish farmers circa 200 ; The economic theory : basic setup ; The economic theory : predictions ; Life in a village in the Galillee circa 200 through the lens of the theory ; Annex 4. A : Formal model of education and conversion of farmers -- Jews in the Talmud Era, 200-650 : the chosen few. An increasingly literate farming society ; Conversions of Jewish farmers ; Summary -- From farmers to merchants, 750-1150. The economics of Hebrew literacy in a world of merchants ; The Golden Age of literate Jews in the Muslim caliphates ; Summary ; Annex 6. A : Formal model of education and conversion of merchants -- Educated wandering Jews, 800-1250. Wandering Jews before Marco Polo ; Jewish migration within the Muslim caliphates ; Migration of Byzantine Jewry ; Jewish migration to and within Christian Europe ; Migration of the Jewish religious center ; Summary -- Segregation or choice? : From merchants to moneylenders, 1000-1500. The economics of money and credit in Medieval Europe ; Jewish prominence in moneylending : hypotheses ; The dynamics of Jewish moneylending in Medieval Europe ; Jewish moneylending in Medieval Italy : a detailed analysis ; Attitudes toward moneylending ; Facts and competing hypotheses ; From merchants to moneylenders : comparative advantage in complex intermediation ; Annex 8. A : The charter to the Jews of Vienna -- The Mongol shock : can Judaism survive when trade and urban economies collapse? The Mongol conquest of the Muslim Middle East ; Socioeconomic conditions in the Middle East under the Mongols ; Jewish demography under Mongol and Mamluk rule : an experiment ; Why Judaism cannot survive when trade and urban economies collapse ; Summary -- 1492 to today : open questions. Portrait of world Jewry circa 1492 ; Jewish history, 70 CE-1492 : epilogue ; Trajectory of the Jewish people over the past 500 years ; Persistence of Jewish occupational structure. 520 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? 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