Between the Diaspora and Zion: Cecil Roth and his American friends |
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Authors: | Frederic Krome |
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Institution: | (1) The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 13101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220-2488, USA |
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Abstract: | Near the start of his career (1925–1930) Cecil Roth developed a vision of the significance of the Diaspora to Jewish life,
which he articulated during his tenure at the Intercollegiate Menorah Society Summer School of 1930. For Roth, Jewish creativity
could be expressed only by possessing a firm grasp of Jewish history and its essentials. In his summer school lectures Roth
sought to integrate Jewish history into the broader sweep of European history, while at the same time he introduced students
to historical sources beyond traditional Jewish texts. In the aftermath of World War II Roth entered into a prolonged correspondence
with the American Jewish historian Jacob Rader Marcus, who had recently founded the American Jewish Archives, whose purpose
was to forward the study of Jewish history by collecting the documents that would enable future research. In their correspondence,
Roth and Marcus enunciated an approach to Jewish history that would influence the field for a generation. |
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Keywords: | Jewish history Diaspora Zionism |
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