Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
1998
Publication Source
The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians
Start Page
128
Last Page
142
Abstract
I have a confession to make. I have long been a fan of Cecil Roth (1899-1970) and his histories of Italian Jewry. My copy of Roth's The Jews in the Renaissance, published in 1959, was one of the first books in Jewish history I acquired as a youth, years before I became interested in the profession of history. This relatively worn copy still adorns my shelf and dates quite accurately my fascination with this engaging popularizer of the Jewish historical experience from my high school years.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 1998 Yale University Press, reproduced with permission.
Recommended Citation
Ruderman, D.B. (1998). Cecil Roth, Historian of Italian Jewry: A Reassessment. In Myers, D. & Ruderman, D.B. (Eds.), The Jewish Past Revisited: Reflections on Modern Jewish Historians, (pp. 128-142). New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Date Posted: 25 August 2017