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"The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492" (Princeton University Press, bibliography page)

Maristella Botticini・Zvi Eckstein／Princeton University Press

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  1. The book's theme: how the Jewish people, who were "agrarian and illiterate" in the year 70, had by 1492 become a literate, urban population specializing in "crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine."
  2. The key was the requirement of "universal male literacy," established about two millennia ago.
  3. Published in 2012. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award.

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