My Jewish Coventry

• Timeline - Browse through the Timeline of Jewish history in Coventry from 1180 until today

• People - Discover the lives, challenges and achievements and contributions of Jewish people to the life of the community

• Places - Significant places for the Jewish Community on Coventry and Warwickshire

• Topics - Vital Topics about Jewish life - From medieval Jewry, to Jewish Boxers, Watchmakers, The Holocaust and Antisemitism

• Voices & Videos - Hear and see the stories of local Jewish people

• Objects - Learn about artefacts significant to Jewish life

• Festivals - Discover about the Jewish Calendar and Festivals

• Exhibition - See the exhibits of Jewish life on display at Coventry's Herbert Museum and the Coventry Archive

Links:

• My Jewish Coventry - This collection about the history of the Jewish Community in Coventry

• Coventry Synagogue - The Facebook page for Coventry's historic, to-be-restored synagogue

• Coventry Jewish Reform Community - Reform Jewish Community in Coventry

• Solihull & District Hebrew Congregation - Orthodox Jewish community covering the Coventry area

• Coventry Hebrew Congregation page on JCR-UK - Gives the historical details of the Synagogue, Presidents & Rabbis etc. 

• Warwick University Jewish Society

Change Log - Updates to the site:

• 19/03/24 Added Belgian Refugees Plaque in St Mary's Guildhall to Emmanuel Kalker

• 18/03/24 Added Coventry response to the 1882 Russian Pogroms on the page about antisemitism

• 18/03/24 Added 1820 Jewish pedlar in Spon Street

• 18/03/24 Added link to full film of Migration Stories | Hidden Histories - for schools use

• 26/11/23 Added Jewish Festival packs

• 14/11/23 Added Emmanuel Kalker JP OBE (1859-1940)

• 10/11/23 Added Keith Landy (1950-2017), Coventry born Vice-President of the World Jewish Congress 

• 10/11/23 Added Nahum Saloman (1828-1900), Bicycle inventor and manufacturer

• 12/10/23 Added Herbert & Museum & Coventry Archive Exhibition

• 01/10/23 Added Jewish Boxers in Coventry

• 19/09/23 Added Jewish Objects

• 01/09/23 Added Jewish Voices collection

• 04/03/25 Updated the Exhibition contents