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The Archive After Cecil Roth: Jewish studies, cultural history and the Cecil Roth Collection

This project, initiated jointly by Eva Frojmovic and Jay Prosser, aims to make the University of Leeds’s fantastic Cecil Roth Collection a resource for our communal and family histories. Discussion aims to elicithow we might engage with and adopt this hidden treasure. For further information about the Sadler Seminar Series, see here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-arts-humanities-research-institute/doc/archive-cecil-roth-jewish-studies-cultural-history-cecil-roth-collection

For more about the project, see the press release here: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/4380/opening_up_pioneering_jewish_historians_treasured_collection

The Hebrew Manuscripts Cataloguer is Konstanze Kunst, who is based in the Special Collections, University Library. She spoke at a recent Institute for Medieval Studies event on the topic ‘(Re-)Cataloguing Cecil Roth’s Manuscript Collection: What’s the Point?’, see here: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval/events/event/1547/medieval-group-research-afternoon

A print cataloguer will be appointed soon.