Cecil Roth

Who was Cecil Roth?

Cecil Roth, was a British Jewish historian.

He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and later returned to Oxford as Reader in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies from 1939 to 1964. Thereafter he was visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and at the City University of New York.

Roth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1925 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1941. He died, aged 71, on 21 June 1970 in Jerusalem.