The chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492 / Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein

Author:: Botticini, Maristella
Published:: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Copyright Date:: ©2012
Physical Description:: xvii, 323 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Eckstein, Zvi

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The Princeton economic history of the Western world

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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 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 Tomas de Torquemada (1258-1492): The End of the Golden Age -- Jewish History, 70 CE-1492: Puzzles -- ch. 2 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 -- ch. 3 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 the Mishna -- ch. 4 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 Galilee circa 200 through the Lens of the Theory -- Annex 4.A Formal Model of Education and Conversion of Farmers -- ch. 5 Jews in the Talmud Era, 200-650: The Chosen Few -- An Increasingly Literate Farming Society -- Conversions of Jewish Farmers -- Summary -- ch. 6 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 -- ch. 7 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 -- ch. 8 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 -- ch. 9 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 Economics Collapse -- Summary -- ch. 10 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.

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ISBN:

9780691144870 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0691144877 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-316) and index.

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Purchased with funds from the Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment; 2012

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Floyd B. and Naomi A. Fischer Libraries Endowment

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