Add to ORKGBefore the eighth-ninth centuries C.E., most Jews, like the rest of the population, were farmers. With the establishment of the Muslim Empire, almost all Jews entered urban occupations despite no restrictions prohibited them from remaining engaged in agriculture. This occupational selection remained their distinctive mark throughout history. Our thesis is that this transition away from agriculture into crafts and trade was the outcome of their widespread literacy prompted by a religious and educational reform in Judaism in the first and second centuries C.E., which gave them a compar-ative advantage in urban, skilled occupations. We present evidence that supports our argument
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
Ph.D.SociologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.li...
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...
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...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
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 C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish fath...
In 70 CE, the Jews were a large, agrarian, and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel...
Jewishness ate distinguished. The.se aspects of Jewishness ate related to education and labor force ...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
Circa 1100, money lending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germ...
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
Ph.D.SociologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.li...
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...
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...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
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 C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish fath...
In 70 CE, the Jews were a large, agrarian, and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel...
Jewishness ate distinguished. The.se aspects of Jewishness ate related to education and labor force ...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
Circa 1100, money lending was the occupation par excellence of the Jews in England, France, and Germ...
This study investigates how mainstream German Jews in the first half of the nineteenth century moved...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
Ph.D.SociologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.li...