Vanessa Freedman (@vrfreedman.bsky.social)

Unlocking a vital historical resource: the Schonfeld Archive Project phase two 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. https://specialcollectionsuniversityofsouthampton.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/unlocking-a-vital-historical-resource-the-schonfeld-archive-project-phase-two/