Cecil Roth in Context

Tuesday 12th April 2005
Hartley Library
University of Southampton

Programme

10:00 – Registration and Refreshments

10:30 – Welcome
Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) and
Joseph Roth (The Cecil Roth Trust)

Session 1:
10:40 – 'Self-Defence or Self-Respect?: Cecil Roth Writing History in the 1930s and 1940s'
Elisa Lawson (Cecil Roth Trust Fellow/University of Southampton)

11:10 – 'Historia Magistra Vitae: Reflections on Cecil Roth’s Text in Context'
Prof. Robert Bonfil (The Hebrew University)

11:40 – Refreshments

Session 2:
12:00 – 'Cecil Roth and Medieval Oxford'
Prof. Colin Richmond (Emeritus Professor Keele University)

12:30 – 'Cecil Roth and the Two Italies'
Dr. Patricia Skinner (University of Southampton)

13:00 – Lunch

Session 3:
14:00 – 'Cecil Roth: A Personal Appraisal'
Prof. Geoffrey Alderman (AIU, London)

14:30 – 'Between the Diaspora and Zion: Cecil Roth and Jacob Rader Marcus'
Dr. Fred Krome (American Jewish Archives)

15:00 – Refreshments

15:20 – Tour of the new Exhibition: Cecil Roth and Other Anglo-Jewish Intellectuals and Special Collections

Plenary Session:
16:00 – 'Cecil Roth and the Future of Anglo-Jewish Historiography'
Convened by Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton)

17:00 – Close

17:30 - The annual Claude Montefiore Lecture will take place in the Parkes Building/ Avenue Campus.
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The Cecil and Irene Roth Memorial Trust
The Cecil Roth Trust Reg No 313517

The Trust was established to promote Jewish Studies in the fields of Jewish history and culture in the context of its environment, with particular focus on such activities in Italy and England. To this end, up to 3 Fellowships of a max. of £5 000 will be awarded in any one year to suitably qualified applicants.
For more details contact Joseph Roth (Hon Secretary)

The 2005 Cecil Roth Memorial Lecture – Good for the Jews, Bad for the Jews: Joseph Hacohen and the Historian’s Craft in Renaissance Italy - Prof. Robert Bonfil (The Hebrew University) – will take place on Monday 11th April at 7:30 at the ORT Centre, 126 Albert Street, Camden, NW1.