Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70–1492.
Princeton University Press, 2012
Awarded the 2012 National Jewish Book award in the category of "scholarship" (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award) by the Jewish Book Council in the United States. The book has been translated into eight languages:
2022 Hungarian translation, Napvilag Kiado
2021 Chinese translation, Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House
2016 French translation, Editions Albin Michel
2014 Polish translation, Jagiellonian University Press
2014 Spanish translation, Antoni Bosch Publisher
2014 Vietnamese translation, ThaiHabooks
2013 Hebrew translation, Tel Aviv University Press
2012 Italian translation, I pochi eletti. Il ruolo dell’istruzione nella storia degli
ebrei, 70–1492. Università Bocconi Editore
Interviews and Book Reviews - English
Radio interview, Tablet Magazine, July 2014
Review by Philip Hoffman, Historically Speaking, November 2013
Interview by Shlomo Maital, Jerusalem Report, September 2013
Review by Michael Levin, BusinessGhost, September 2013
Review by Manuel Trajtenberg, Haaretz, August 2013
Interview by Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour, August 2013
Summary and review by Paul Solman, PBS NewsHour, April 2013
Review by Peter Temin, Journal of Economic Literature, March 2013
Review by Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman, Journal of Economic History, March 2013
Summary in Reform Judaism, Spring 2013
Review by David Warsh, Economic Principals, January 2013
Review by Carmel Chiswick, EH.Net, January 2013
Review by Steven Weiss, Slate Magazine, November 2012
Interview by Steven Weiss, TJC's Jewish News Week, October 2012
Review by Jonathan Krasner, The Jewish Daily Forward, August 2012
Interviews and Reviews - Italian
Review by Fiona Diwan, Bollettino della Comunità Ebraica di Milano, March 2013
Interview by Susanna Nirenstein, Repubblica, December 2012
Review by Stefano Jesorum, Corriere della Sera, December 2012
Interviews and Reviews - Hebrew
Video book review by Manuel Trajtenberg, Haaretz, July 2013
Interview in Globes G Magazine, May 2013
Interview by Avital Lahav, Ynet, February 2013