Dr. 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 .
His first published work was The Last Florentine Republic in 1925 Roth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1925 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1941.In 1928 he married Irene Rosalind Davis. He died, aged 71, on 21 June 1970 in Jerusalem.
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