The chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492 /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
