Talk:Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation

Article in Turk of America

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)

Orthodox Union

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)

Calvo family photographs

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)

New York

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)

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)

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)