On the strongroom shelves in Archives and Special Collections at the University of Southampton sit over a thousand boxes containing a single twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish collection: the Schonfeld Archive. This valuable collection of primary source material documents the life and work of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld, an influential figure in twentieth-century Jewish history. Active from the 1930s until his death in 1984, Rabbi Schonfeld was instrumental in rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and in advancing orthodox Jewish education in the UK.

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