The Parkes Institute is a research centre for the study of Jewish and non-Jewish relations, based at the University of Southampton

University of Southampton

The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

 in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It includes an extensive archive of books, journals, official documents and other resources donated by James Parkes

James Parkes (clergyman)

James Parkes was born on the Island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands and was a clergyman, historian, and social activist...

, a Christian theologian who sought to challenge the damage done by antisemitism. Many of these materials relate to the history of the Holocaust. The centre also provides access to the papers of scholars such as Claude Montefiore

Claude Montefiore

Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore was son of Nathaniel Montefiore, and the great nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Some identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics.-Education:He was educated at...

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The Parkes Library is now housed within the Hartley Library , the main university library building. The collection was transferred to the University of Southampton in 1964 where it has increased in size to over 20,000 printed items and over 500 collections of manuscripts, containing over one million items.

External links

• The home page of the Parkes Institute