Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin CBE (born 22, August 1933) is an Oxford scholar.

Theodore Zeldin was born on the slopes of Mount Carmel on August 22, 1933, the son of Russian-Jewish parents who later chose to become naturalized British subjects. His father was a civil engineer, an expert in bridge-building, a colonel in the Russian Czarist Army, and a socialist who rejected the Bolsheviks. Zeldin's mother was the daughter of an industrialist and she was a denti...