Add to ORKGSince the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, Þnance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We argue that this transition was the outcome of the widespread literacy among Jews prompted by an educational reform in the Þrst century ce. Based on the growing nexus between education and Judaism in the Þrst half of the millennium, we build a model in which Jewish men choose education, occupation, religion, and location. The model predicts that when urbanization expands (as it did in the Muslim Empire), Jews move to new cities due to their comparative adv...
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers ...
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish fath...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
Before the eighth ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With...
Before the eighth–ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With...
Before the eighth-ninth centuries C.E., most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. Wi...
In 70 CE, the Jews were a large, agrarian, and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel...
Circa 1100, money lending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germ...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers ...
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish fath...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
Before the eighth ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With...
Before the eighth–ninth centuries CE, most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With...
Before the eighth-ninth centuries C.E., most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. Wi...
In 70 CE, the Jews were a large, agrarian, and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel...
Circa 1100, money lending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germ...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...