Cecil Roth
Cecil Roth (5 March 1899 – 21 June 1970)
Life
Roth was born in Dalston, London, on 5 March 1899. His parents were Etty and Joseph Roth, and Cecil was the youngest of their four sons. In childhood, Cecil received a traditional Jewish religious education, including studying Hebrew with Jacob Mann. He went to school at City of London School. He fought in the First World War, seeing active duty in France in 1918.[2]
Roth studied history at
In 1928 he married Irene Rosalind Davis[3] and lived off freelance writing until returning to Oxford as Reader in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964.[3][2][5]
The couple were enthusiastic collectors of Judaism-related manuscripts and objets d'art, selling substantial collections of the former to the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds in 1961, and of the latter to the Beth Tzedec Synagogue Museum in Toronto.[2]
On his retirement from Oxford in 1964, at the invitation of
Roth died, aged 71, on 21 June 1970 in Jerusalem.[5]
Works
He was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica from 1965 until his death.[5][9]
His works number over 600 items, including:
- The Last Florentine Republic (1527-1530) (London, 1925)
- Roth, Cecil (1974) [1932]. A History of the Marranos (5th ed.). New York, United States: Sepher-Hermon Press. ISBN 0872031381.
- Life of Menasseh Ben Israel (Philadelphia, 1934)
- Roth Haggadah(1934)
- A short History of the Jewish people (Macmillan, London 1936)
- 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,[10] as part of the Susser Archive of JCR-UK
- The Jewish Contribution to Civilization (New York, 1941)
- History of the Jews in England (Oxford, 1941)[11]
- History of the Jews in Italy (Philadelphia, 1946)
- The Rise of Provincial Jewry (Oxford, 1950), available online,[12] 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)
- The House of Nasi: Doña Gracia (1969)
Biography
- Roth, Irene. Cecil Roth: Historian without Tears. A Memoir (New York: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1982), ISBN 9780872031036
References
- ^ a b c "ROTH, Cecil". Who Was Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d e 'Provisional handlist of manuscripts in the Roth Collection', Handlist 164 (Leeds University Library).
- ^ a b c d Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900-1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 120.
- ^ "DR. CECIL ROTH, 71, HISTORIAN, IS DEAD". The New York Times. No. June 22, 1970 page 37. 22 June 1970.
- ^ a b c "Dr Cecil Roth". The Times. 22 June 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ Myers, David N. (2002). The Problem of History in German-Jewish Thought (PDF). Graphit Press Ltd.[dead link]
- ISBN 9780872031036.
- ISBN 9780872031036.
- ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4 – via Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- ^ "History of the Great Synagogue". JCR-UK. jewishgen.org. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ^ Roth, Cecil. "A History Of The Jews In England". Retrieved 11 June 2013.
- ^ "The Rise of Provincial Jewry". JCR-UK. jewishgen.org. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
External links
- Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007) entry on "Roth, Cecil" by Vivian D. Lipman
- Cecil Roth Collection, University of Leeds