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The chosen few

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September 2013

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Maital, S. (2013). The chosen few. Samuel Neaman Institute.
https://www.neaman.org.il/en/the-chosen-few-2/

How literacy helped the Jews: This new book, The Chosen Few, shows how the Jewish people survived and thrived, until the Iberian Expulsion of 1492, because of Torah study and widespread literacy – which became the Jews’ core competency and made them key players in global business and banking.  It was not anti-Semitism that shaped the Jews’ destiny, but literacy. 

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