Botticini, Maristella; Eḳshṭain, Tsevi - 2002
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade … among Jews prompted by an educational reform in the first century CE. Based on the growing nexus between education and … location. The model predicts that when urbanization expands (as it did in the Muslim Empire), Jews move to new cities due to …