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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS THE CHOSEN FEW: HOW EDUCATION SHAPED JEWISH HISTORY, 70-1492 MARISTELLA BOTTICINI and ZVI ECKSTEIN
Princeton
University Press, 2012 Also available at Amazon Italian: Università
Bocconi Editore, 2012 Hebrew: The Haim Rubin Tel Aviv University Press, 2013 Polish: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2014 Spanish: Antoni Bosch, 2014 French: Albin Michel, 2016 Vietnamese: 2016 In 70 CE, the
Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Maristella Botticini
and Zvi Eckstein show that, contrary to previous explanations, this
transformation was driven not by anti-Jewish persecution and legal
restrictions, but rather by changes within Judaism itself after 70 CE-most importantly,
the rise of a new norm that required every Jewish male to read and study the
Torah and to send his sons to school. Over the next six centuries, those Jews
who found the norms of Judaism too costly to obey converted to other
religions, making world Jewry shrink. Later, when urbanization and commercial
expansion in the newly established Muslim Caliphates increased the demand for
occupations in which literacy was an advantage, the Jews found themselves
literate in a world of almost universal illiteracy. From then forward, almost
all Jews entered crafts and trade, and many of them began moving in search of
business opportunities, creating a worldwide Diaspora in the process. The Chosen Few offers a powerful new explanation of one of the most significant
transformations in Jewish history while also providing fresh insights to the
growing debate about the social and economic impact of religion. Reviews
and Interviews - English Lecture at the Dead Sea Research Institute,
November 2018 (Hebrew, English subtitles) Lecture at POLIN Museum,
December 2016 (Introduction in Polish, lecture in English) Interview at Lecturama,
March 2016 Interview by Gilad Halpern at TLV1 Radio, March 2015 Interview by Shlomo Maital at The Jerusalem Report, September 2013 Book Review by Paul Solman at PBS NewsHour, April 2013 Book Review by David Warsh at Economic Principals,
January 2013 Book Review by Peter Temin at Journal of Economic
Literature, 2013 Book Review by Carmel U. Chiswick at EH.Net, January
2013 Book Review by Steven Weiss at Slate Magazine,
November 2012 Interview by Steven Weiss at TJC's Jewish News Week,
October 2012 Comments by Professor Neil Wallach,
August 2015 Comments by Professor Yehezkel Dror,
July 2018s Reviews and Interviews - Italian Book Review by Fiona Diwan at Bollettino della
Comunità Ebraica di Milano, March 2013 Interview by Susanna Nirenstein
at Repubblica, December 2012 Book Review by Stefano Jesorum
at Corriere della
Sera, December 2012 Reviews
and Interviews - Hebrew Interview at IDC Radio, January 2020 Lecture at the Dead Sea Research Institute,
November 2018 Book Review at Hagada Hasmalit, May 2016 Symposium with Aviad
Kleinberg, Aliza Lavie, Tamar El Or
and Abraham B. Yehoshua, March 2014 Interview by Ushi Shoham - Krausz at Reshet Alef,
December 2013 Book
Review by Abraham Tennenbaum at Judges' Newsletter, November 2013 Interview by Yaron London
and Moti Kirschenbaum, August 2013 (starts at 37:20) Book
Review by Manuel Trajtenberg at Haaretz, July 2013 (also available here for subscribers only) Video Book
Review by Manuel Trajtenberg at Haaretz, July 2013 Interview at Globes G Magazine, May 2013 Interview by Avital Lahav
at Ynet, February 2013 Interview at Reshet TV,
December 2009 Reviews
and Interviews - Spanish Book Review at El Boomeran(g) Reviews
and Interviews - French Book Review at Le Messager,
September 2016 Book Review by Eric Keslassy at Actualité Juive,
June 2016 Book Review by Daniel Cohen at Information Juive,
May 2016 Book Review at Agoravox,
April 2016 Interview at Lecturama,
March 2016 (English with French subtitles) Interview by Steve Nadjar at Actualité Juive, March 2016 Book
Review at Mediapart, March 2016 Book Review at Actualité Juive, March 2016 Press Release, March 2016 |
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