gb-003350-ms 156
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date: c.1927-1969
has beginning date: 1920-01-01
has end date: 1969-12-31
has or had holder: gb-003350
has or had some members with language: heb
has or had some members with language: eng
has record set type: Fonds
history: The last Florentine republic (1952), A short history of the Jewish people History of the Jews in England Encyclopaedia Judaica Cecil Roth: historian without tears Cecil Roth was Reader in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford, Visiting Lecturer in History at Jews' College, London, and President of the Jewish Historical Society of England. He published many works on Jewish and general history, including (1936) and (1941). He was editor-in-chief of the (see Irene Roth (New York, 1982).
identifier: MS 156
record resource extent: 7 boxes
scope and content: 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.
title: Papers of Cecil Roth