Latest revision or update: 20 December 2011

Coventry, with a population of about 300,000, is the ninth largest city in England.  The metropolitan borough of Coventry was created in 1974, within the then new metropolitan county of West Midlands.  Coventry became a unitary authority in 1986, when West Midlands lost its administrative status, becoming purely a ceremonial and geographical county.  Until 1974, Coventry was a county borough and part of the county of Warwickshire.

The following Congregations are considered to be part of the Coventry Community:

Coventry Hebrew Congregation
Coventry Reform Jewish Community

Articles on the Coventry Community

Coventry from "Provincial Jewry in Victorian Britain"  - Papers for a conference at University College, London, convened by the Jewish Historical Society of Great Britain, prepared by Aubrey Newman - 6th July 1975.  Reproduced here with his kind consent.

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Coventry by Cecil Roth, 1950. Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Jewish Population Data

Other Coventry Information

Local Research Libraries, Bibliography and other sources

Coventry Medieval Community