By Maristella Botticini The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 (Princeton Economic History of the West [Hardcover] Cover
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By Maristella Botticini The Chosen Few How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 (Princeton Economic History of the West [Hardcover]

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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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

Klein highlighted the book for its analysis of how education shaped Jewish history.

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I really like this book A Chosen Few, How Education Shaped Jewish History because it really emphasizes how early changes in a religion of a particular group had big longterm consequences.

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Klein highlighted the book for its analysis of how education shaped Jewish history.

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I really like this book A Chosen Few, How Education Shaped Jewish History because it really emphasizes how early changes in a religion of a particular group had big longterm consequences.

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