The Chosen Few读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 344页 | 2012 | Princeton University Press |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 39.50 | 2012-08-05 … | 2023-02-11 … | 89 |
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 fifteen formative centuries of Jewish history.
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.
作者简介作者：
[德]马瑞斯泰拉·波提切尼，博科尼大学经济学系的教授，同时也是博科尼大学因诺森佐·加斯帕里尼经济研究所（Innocezo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research, IGIER）研究员。
[以色列] 兹维·埃克斯坦，以色列IDC赫茨利亚跨学科中心亚伦经济政策研究所所长、蒂姆金经济学院（Tiomkin Shool of Economics）的系主任，特拉维夫大学艾坦·贝格拉斯经济学院（Eitan Berglas School of Economics）名誉教授，曾任以色列央行副行长。
译者：
杨阳教授，现任上海外国语大学东方语学院副院长，希伯来语专业主任，以色列研究中心主任，中国高校犹太文化研究联盟理事，国际以色列研究学会会员、欧洲以色列研究学会会员，《新丝路学刊》编辑部主任。曾在以色列特拉维夫大学政治...
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