Add to ORKGFrom the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers to educate their sons. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history. First, the high individual and community cost of educating children in subsistence farming economies (2nd to 7th centuries) prompted voluntary conversions, which account for a large share of the reduction in the size of the Jewish population from 4.5 million to 1.2 million. Second, the Jewish farmers who invested in education, gained the comparative advantage and incentive to enter skilled occupations during the vast urbanization in the newly developed Muslim Empir...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
ABSTRACT: Migration in history has generated ethnical and religious synthesis, demographical, cultur...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
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...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
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...
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...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
ABSTRACT: Migration in history has generated ethnical and religious synthesis, demographical, cultur...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
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...
From the end of the second century CE, Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring fathers to educat...
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as cr...
This Paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explai...
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...
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...
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...
ABSTRACT: Migration in history has generated ethnical and religious synthesis, demographical, cultur...
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Me...