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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. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. March 1899 – 21. June 1970
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“Abraham ibn Ezra, that restless, versatile Spaniard who wrote on almost every subject which could interest the medieval mind”

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Source: A History of the Jews in England (3rd ed. 1964), p. 126

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