DR. CECIL ROTH
Dr. Cecil Roth, nine times President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, died on 21 June 1970, aged 71. It has for long been the custom of the Jewish Historical Society for the death of any of its prominent members to be marked by memorial tributes at the next following meeting of the Society. Few members can claim to have been as prominent in the Society’s affairs, and over so long a period, as Dr. Roth, especially with his record in its highest office. The occasion to pay the tributes came less than a month after his death, on 12 July 1970, during the first Conference, held in London, of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Jewish Historical Society of England. It was, in the circumstances of Dr. Roth’s life and activities, a particularly appro? priate occasion. At the beginning of the first evening meeting, which was presided
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Abram Vossen Goodman, Raphael Loewe, Vivian D. Lipman, Aubrey Newman
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Volume 23
1969
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- DR. CECIL ROTH
- Medieval Southampton and its Jews
- New light on the Selection of Jewish Children’s Names
- Emanuel Deutsch of “The Talmud” Fame
- Lord George Bentinck and the Jews
- The Changed Face of English Jewry at the end of the Eighteenth Century
- The Responsa of Dayan Jacob Reinowitz, 1818—1893
- The Amazing Clan of Buzaglo
- Frederic David Mocatta, 1828—1905
- Preface