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 | #402445 in Books |  2014-10-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 344 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting premise and well researched, but strange mixture of scientific and popular|By Baruch Pletner|The central premise in this book is that Jewish specialization in money lending and other professions that require high degree of literacy was not the result of external pressures, but rather the result of self-imposed religious injunction to educate all Jewish males post th| |Winner of the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship|One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's 40 Best Jewish Books of 2012

"[A]mbitious . . . systematically dismantle much of the conventional wisdom about medieval Jewish history.

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 fif...

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