ha-Miʻuṭ ha-nivḥar : ketsad ʻitsev ha-limud et ha-hisṭoryah ha-kalkalit shel ha-Yehudim, 70-1942 = Chosen few / Tsevi Eḳshṭain u-Marisṭelah Boṭits'ini ; me-Anglit Ingah Mikhaʼeli.
המיעוט הנבחר : כיצד עיצב הלימוד את ההיסטוריה הכלכלית של היהודים, 70-1492 = Chosen few צבי אקשטיין ומריסטלה בוטיצ׳יני ; מאנגלית אינגה מיכאלי.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eckstein, Zvi, author.

Botticini, Maristella, author.

Contributor:

Mikhaʼeli, Ingah, translator.

Mikhaʼeli, Ingah

Standardized Title:

Chosen few. Hebrew

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Jews--Economic conditions.

Judaism.

History.

Jews.

Jews--History--To 1500.

Judaism--History--To 1500.

Jews--Economic conditions--To 1500.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

413 pages : maps ; 21 cm

Other Title:

On verso of title page: Chosen few : how education shaped Jewish history, 70-1492

Place of Publication:

Tel Aviv : Universiṭat Tel-Aviv, hotsaʼah la-or ʻa. sh. Ḥayim Rubin, 2013.

תל אביב : אוניברסיטת תל־אביב, הוצאה לאור ע''ש חיים רובין, 2013.

Contents:

Index from the English original version: Ch. 1. 70 CE-1492 : How many Jews were there, and where and how did they live?

From Jesus to Muhammad (I 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

Ch. 2. Were the Jews a persecuted minority?

Restrictions on Jewish economic activities ; Taxation discrimination ; Physical versus portable human capital ; Self-segregation 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 (500-50BCE) : 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 Mishma and universal primary education, 10 CE-200 ; Judaism and education : the unique link in the world of 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 Galillee 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 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 intermediaton ; 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 economies 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-402) and index.

ISBN:

9789657241585

9657241588

OCLC:

852744372