personalities and Events in Jewish History

Roth, Cecil

Published by The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1953

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viii, (3), 324 pages. 22 x 15 cm. A Collection of Essays. Includes chapters on "Jewish Ancestry of Michel de Montaigne", "Shylock" (Shakespeare's), "The Jew as a European"; What is meant by assimilation, "The Medieval Conception of the Jew", "Folklore of the Ghetto", The slave colony of Jews which existed for centuries on the island of Malta, etc. Cecil Roth (1899-1970), editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Judaica, was born in London and went to Merton College, Oxford, where he showed an interest in Jewish history and liturgy as early as his undergraduate years. He was a reader in Jewish studies at Oxford for two and a half decades, until 1964, when he moved to Jerusalem, as a visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University. After a heart attack and being falsely accused of unorthodoxy, he left Bar-Ilan, and spent the rest of his life editing the Encyclopaedia Judaica and teaching at Queens College and Stern College in New York. Roth wrote and published profusely, with O. K. Rabinowitz's 1966 bibliography listing 572 items, though the actual number is over 600, including translations and editing of Haggadot. (Lipman, EJ).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: personalities and Events in Jewish History
• Publisher: The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica