Cecil Roth Quotes

• 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.

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  Cecil Roth

  Journey   Years   Community  

  "A History of the Jews in England". Book by Cecil Roth, 3rd edition, p. 1, 1964.

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• 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

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  Cecil Roth

  Book   Writing   Thinking  

  Cecil Roth (1935). “A Bird's-eye View of Jewish History”, Cincinatti : Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

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

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  Hebrew   Speak   Jew  

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