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Passover, Sukkot, and Shavuot are harvest festivals that hearken back to a time when Jews were farmers just like everyone around them. But Jews as professional farmers did not endure in fact or as a stereotype. Instead, Jews moved into more highly skilled fields\\u2014as moneylenders, traders, doctors, lawyers. What happened centuries ago that caused most of the world\\u2019s Jewry to move from tilling fields to work that required them to be able to read and write? That\\u2019s the question that a pair of economists\\u2014Maristella Botticini of Bocconi University in Milan, and Zvi Eckstein of the School of Economics at ICD Herzliya in Israel, set out to answer in their recent book,

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