Cecil Roth Quotes

United Kingdom, Historian
March 5, 1899 – June, 21, 1970.

Sir 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.

The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.

Cecil Roth
- Community
- Church
- Journey
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence

Cecil Roth
- Writing
- Book
- Spirit

Before Ben-Yehuda... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

Cecil Roth
- Speak
- Jew
- Hebrew