IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 507
Held at: Wiener Library
Title: Roth, Cecil (1899-1970): Papers relating to Italian Jewry (microfilm)
Date(s): 1931-1944
Level of description: Collection level
Extent: 258 frames
Name of creator(s): Roth | Cecil | 1899-1970 | historian
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Cecil Roth (1899-1970), Jewish historian and editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Judaica, 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 an historian with a special interest in Italy, his first major work being The Last Florentine Republic. 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.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Essays and memoranda on the situation of Italian Jewry and original correspondence between Dr Cecil Roth and certain Italian Jews and organisations concerning their rescue after 1939.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, Italian
System of arrangement:
Chronological by type of material.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Physical characteristics:
Microfilm
Finding aids:
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Cecil Roth family
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2007