Talk:Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation

A fact from Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 October 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a CD by hazzan Samuel Benaroya of Seattle, Washington's Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation is one of the few recordings of Ottoman Hebrew sacred music?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/October.

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Article in Turk of America[edit]

For what it's worth, there is an article about the congregation on the site of Turk of America, An Over 100-Year History of Turkish Sephardic Jews in Seattle. In theory, because that site is independent of the congregation, some notions of a "good source" might prefer it to the "SBH 90th Anniversary" page that I cited heavily in the article. However, it's pretty obviously more or less a digest of that page, with the sources mentioned inline rather than at the bottom of each section. - Jmabel | Talk 21:57, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Orthodox Union[edit]

FWIW, Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation page on the site of the Orthodox Union. Not much there, so I didn't put it in the article. - Jmabel | Talk 23:50, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Calvo family photographs[edit]

In the course of researching this, I ran across, Guide to the Calvo Family Photograph Collection circa 1905-1925 on the site of the University of Washington Library. It includes 11 digitally reproduced photos. Not quite on-topic enough to belong in the article, I think, but I'm mentioning it here in case anyone is working on early Sephardic immigration to Seattle. - Jmabel | Talk 00:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New York[edit]

From the article: "thanks to an influx of Syrian, Persian and Bukharian Jews, Sephardim make up a far larger portion of [New York]'s Jewry." That doesn't make sense. While Syrian Jews are generally Sephardim, the Jews of Bukhara certainly are not -- no connection to Iberia at all -- and I would presume that very few Persian Jews have Sephardic origins either. "Sephardic" doesn't merely mean "not Ashkenazaic" or "coming from the Muslim world": it specifically means tracing one's ancestry or cultural background to medieval Iberia (modern Spain or Portugal). - Jmabel | Talk 00:11, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Also, does this mean far larger than the 1% they once constituted in New York (I can believe that, even with the caveats I just gave) or far larger percentage than in the Seattle area (which I seriously doubt: that would require something like half a million Sephardim in New York, given the large number of Ashkenazim there)? - Jmabel | Talk 00:15, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I see that this change came on an anonymous edit, and the "reference" for the influx says nothing of the sort. The remark about an influx was placed before a preexisting reference I had given, falsely implying that somehow cites for it, but the cited article in question says simply, "At one time, Sephardics constituted about one-third of Seattle's Jewish population; in New York it was less than 1 percent. Today, Sephardics make up about 10 percent of Seattle-area Jews, Ben-Ur says." It says absolutely nothing about the influx to New York. I will change the sequence (move that remark about an influx to after the reference) so that it is clear that it is not cited for. - Jmabel | Talk 00:23, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]