Papers of Cecil Roth

Papers of Cecil Roth 

Papers of Cecil Roth 

7 boxes 

A bird's-eye view of Jewish history Correspondence, c.1927-69, with letters between third parties, including A.M.Hyamson to Lord Cohen of Walmer, 1952, Wickham Steed to Neville Laski, 1934, and Hilary Jenkinson to Richard Barnett, 1955. Notes and working papers, including notes on Jews of and at Oxford, notes on statesmen of 16th century Turkey and the social history of the Jews in Europe, copies or transcripts of documents, photographs and other papers; genealogies of the Mendes Dacosta, Jurnet and Salaman families, the Liebman, Woolf and Solomon of Penzance and the Jacobs families. Lectures by Roth on Jewish history from the early medieval period to the 19th century; reviews and articles, newspaper cuttings and offprints. A copy of Roth's (Cincinatti, 1935) with manuscript and type- written notes by the author to amend it as the basis of a correspondence course in Jewish history, c.1947.