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According to Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein:

According to Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein:

{{Cquote|...in the world of almost universal illiteracy back 2,000 years, the Jewish religious leadership — the rabbis and scholars in the academies in Judea and Galilee — required each Jewish individual, child or adult, rich or poor, farmer or merchant, to learn to read and study the Torah. Instead of restricting learning, study and knowledge to a small elite, the Jewish religious leadership of that time went exactly in the opposite direction: it pushed Judaism toward making literacy, education and knowledge universal among all Jews. Centuries later, this apparently odd choice of a religious norm became the lever of the economic prosperity and intellectual achievements of the Jews.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/jewish-literacy-as-the-road-to/ Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: The Chosen Path of the ‘Chosen Few], PBS</ref>}}

{{Cquote|...in the world of almost universal illiteracy back 2,000 years, the Jewish religious leadership — the rabbis and scholars in the academies in Judea and Galilee — required each Jewish individual, child or adult, rich or poor, farmer or merchant, to learn to read and study the Torah. Instead of restricting learning, study and knowledge to a small elite, the Jewish religious leadership of that time went exactly in the opposite direction: it pushed Judaism toward making literacy, education and knowledge universal among all Jews. Centuries later, this apparently odd choice of a religious norm became the lever of the economic prosperity and intellectual achievements of the Jews.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/jewish-literacy-as-the-road-to/ Jewish Literacy as the Road to Riches: The Chosen Path of the ‘Chosen Few], PBS</ref>}}

== See also ==

== See also ==