Talk:Romaniote Jews

message: i've been doing research on greece for as long as i can remember, and i still know very little about the romaniotes. 
Gringo300 09:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: research

message: I have just done some editing in this article, moslty incorporating stuff from the Greece article, and I have also tried to make this article a bit more structured, but there is one thing that bugs me: Jews in Greece is redirected to Romaniotes, and this article talks about Romaniotes in particular and about Jews in Greece (Romaniotes AND Sephardim) in general. Subgroup and supergroup. There is an ambiguity every time there is something to be said. I tried to fix this followng the pattern "This happened to Jews in Greece, this happened to Romaniotes in particular", but I think there should be some more clarification on the matter. Personally speaking all I know about Jews in Greece comes from wikipedia, so please anyone who knows a bit more (Etz Haim?) help clarify this! Michalis Famelis 08:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Michalis, thanks for notifying me for this. Jews in Greece have been and are predominantly Sephardic, although in the past Ashkenazic communities have existed as well. It should be made clear that the Romaniotes are a minority subgroup of the Greek Jewry. Etz Haim 15:28, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Jews in Greece should be an article, not a redirect. Romaniotes should be mentioned, and linked to, in its first paragraph, as should Sephardim. -- Jmabel | Talk 22:06, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Jews in Greece could be a great article, there is 2000 years of history to tell. The Romaniotes made the Septuagint, didn't they? I quick Google search for "Romaniotes", but excluding the word "Wikipedia" yields 839 websites. That's a good starting point, but it still doesn't give much on the rest of the Jewish population in Greece (Sefardim). Izehar 22:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a "wikipedia custom" to have such temporary redirects until someone writes the article. There are a lot Greek Jews and they have interesting history. +MATIA  ☎ 23:20, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction: there were a lot of Greek Jews. Now, there just under 5000 of them and with the increasing number of aliyot, that number is dwindling. I would also like to point out to Etz Haim that the Sefardi Jews had the protection of the Spanish government at the time of WWII. They even granted Spanish citizenship to Sefardi Jews on request and Franco explicitly asked Hitler not to molest the "Spanish Jews" in any way. Of course, that didn't make much of a difference, but it helped certain Jewish communities survive the Holocaust. The Jewish communities of countries such as Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary, which had large Sefardi communities, as opposed to most other countries in Europe which had predominantly Ashkenazi populations, have survived the Holocaust, as opposed to countries such as Poland, where there are literally no Jews left today. Izehar 23:32, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Greek Jews" and "Jews in Greece" 

message: I propose to delete the window titled, 'Part of a series of articles on
Jews and Judaism'. The links it gives must be place in a 'Portal' article on Jews and Judaism, not smack across other articles. If everybody did this, there would be no room on the article pages for any other information. Politis 11:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see Wikipedia:Article series, Wikipedia:List of article series, and Wikipedia:Navigational templates for how this type of thing is usually handled. Fut.Perf. ☼ 12:08, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: deleate window

message: The specific section, as-is, is not directly relevant, since the article is specifically about the Romaniotes (a population distinct from the Sephardim, who have constituted the majority of Jews in Greece for the past few centuries). A better place for it would thus be within the article History of the Jews in Greece. Instead, I suggest that the section be renamed "Notable Romaniotes" and the list of names be accordingly populated. Please comment here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Contributor175 (talk • contribs) 24 November  2006.
: Agree completely. - Jmabel | Talk 22:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the feedback. From among the currently listed people, only Rae Dalven seems to qualify. Amalia Vaka (not currently listed) deserves to be included as well. Proceeding with the edit. Contributor175 17:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Interestingly the singer Rosa Ashkenazi was Romainiote. The irony of her name, and her home (Istanbul) may make it even stranger to some, but there were in fact many Romaniotes in Izmir/Smyrna, Istanbul and other places with heavy Greek populations but which remained in Turkey after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Indeed some of the more notable Romanites are named Ashkenazi including two notable researchers, Deborah S. Esquenazi, and filmmaker Ed Askinazi, whose great grandparents were founders of wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehila_Kedosha_Janina. 71.252.96.170 (talk) 22:59, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Section "Famous Jews in Greece"

message: Didn't ALL the people of the Byzantine empire call themselves Romaniotes from the 11-12th century' to differ from the Latin crusaders? David1776 15:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, a common contemporary appelation of the Byzantines, used by themselves was Romaioi or Romioi, ie Romans. See also the articles Byzantine Greeks and Names of the Greeks. --Michalis Famelis (talk) 18:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On that topic, there is no evidence that the Romaniote called themselves such for long and certainly not before the influx of Sephardim. 71.252.96.170 (talk) 22:28, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Byzantine

message: Does anyone know the liturgical language of the Romaniotes, because I think it should be in the infobox. Ashkenazi Hebrew is at Ashkenazim and Sephardi Hebrew is at Sephardim for example.--Domitius 19:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liturgical language 

message: For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all  infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 20:18, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "related groups" info removed from infobox 

message: It says 11,000 Romaniotes live in Greece. That can't be accurate; only 5,000 Jews live in Greece. Could someone find the real number?--RM (Be my friend) 04:57, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Regions with significant populations

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