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- Cecil Roth (5 March 1899 – 21 June 1970) FRSL FRHistS was an English historian. He was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
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Cecil Roth (5 March 1899 – 21 June 1970) [1] FRSL FRHistS was an English historian. He was editor-in-chief of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. 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.
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www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk · cecil-roth-1899-1970Cecil Roth 1899 – 1970 – Oxford Jewish Heritage
Cecil Roth, the youngest of the four sons of Joseph and Etty Roth, was born in 1899. His father, who had emigrated to this country from Poland, was a well-read businessman of the type traditionally styled in Jewish parlance a maskir, i.e. one committed to an interest in Hebrew with an ability to handle it (and other Jewish texts) competently at ...
ROTH, CECIL (Bezalel ; 1899–1970), Jewish historian; editor in chief of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Roth, who was born in London, the son of a manufacturer of building supplies, saw active service in the British infantry in 1918 before being educated at the City of London School and at Merton College, Oxford, obtaining his ...
Cecil Roth, born in London, 1899, was one of the greatest Jewish historians in the twentieth century, recognized expert in Jewish art and educator.
A brief treatment of the life and work of Cecil Roth, an extremely influential 20th century scholar of Jewish history and art.More information on Kosher Rive...
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Long familiar to COMMENTARY readers for his special historical investigations, Cecil Roth here offers a fresh analysis of the Jewish revolt of 66-70 C.E. The events in Palestine during the great revolt against the Romans in 66-73, culminating, although not ending, in the capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple in the year 70 ...
Cecil Roth—a magic name in a certain realm of Jewish history writing—died on June 21, 1970 in Jerusalem, at the age of seventy-one. His first writing in what became his chosen field had appeared just about fifty years before, in 1920.
