Cecil Roth file: Documents re Italian Jewry

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>Cecil Roth (1899-1970), Jewish historian and editor in chief of the <em>Encyclopedia Judaica</em>, was born in London, saw active service in the British infantry in 1918 before entering Merton College, Oxford, obtaining his doctorate in 1925. He trained as a historian with a special interest in Italy, his first major work being <em>The Last Florentine Republic</em>. He was reader in Jewish Studies at Oxford from 1939-1964. When he retired in 1964 he settled in Jerusalem, taking up a visiting professorship at Bar-Ilan University.</p> Use R:\Document collections\MF54\Working images\04 Frames 306-586 <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection of material documenting the experiences of Italian Jewry is in 2 parts: Cecil Roth's essays and memoranda on the history and experience of Italian Jewry in general (507/I); and his original correspondence concerning the fate of individual Italian Jews during the Nazi era (507/II).</p> Open