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Name
  
Cecil Roth


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Died
  
June 21, 1970, Jerusalem, Israel

Education
  
University of Oxford, Merton College, Oxford

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Sir Cecil Roth (5 March 1899 – 21 June 1970), was a British Jewish historian.

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He was educated at Merton College, Oxford (Ph.D., 1924) and later returned to Oxford as Reader in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964. Thereafter he was visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (1964–1965), and at the City University of New York (1966–1969).

Roth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1925 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1941.

In 1928 he married Irene Rosalind Davis. He died, aged 71, on 21 June 1970 in Jerusalem.

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Works

He was editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Judaica from 1965 until his death.

His works number over 600 items, including:

  • Roth, Cecil (1974) [1932]. A History of the Marranos (5th ed.). New York, USA: Sepher-Hermon Press. ISBN 0872031381. 
  • Life of Menasseh Ben Israel (Philadelphia, 1934)
  • Roth Haggadah (1934)
  • Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica: a Bibliographical Guide to Anglo-Jewish History (London, 1937)
  • The Spanish Inquisition (Robert Hale Limited 1937)
  • Anglo-Jewish Letters, 1158-1917 (London, 1938)
  • History of the Great Synagogue (of London), available online, as part of the at the Susser Archive of JCR-UK
  • The Jewish Contribution to Civilization (New York 1941)
  • History of the Jews in England (Oxford, 1941)
  • History of the Jews in Italy (Philadelphia, 1946)
  • The Rise of Provincial Jewry (Oxford, 1950), available online, as part of the Susser Archive of JCR-UK
  • History of the Jews (initially published as A Bird's-Eye View of Jewish History) (1954)
  • The Jews in the Renaissance (Philadelphia, 1959)
  • Jewish Art (1961)
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls (1965)

    • References

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