Talk:Historic synagogues

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I created this by lifting material from synagogue. I will expand it on an ongoing basis. It is here because of the multiple good-faith but unsophisticated claims (usually backed by travel books and local newspaper articles) that this or that synagogue is the oldest.Historicist (talk) 22:52, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Shalom al-Yisrael Synagogue
The Shalom al-Yisrael Synagogue is not in Israel, its in the Palestinian territories. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 15:36, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

Synagogue in the Palestinian territories moved to Israel section
Jiujitsuguy, could you please explain why you moved this synagogue in the Palestinian territories and added it to the Israel section? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 18:39, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you please explain why you insist on making contentious edits and turning every single wikipedia article that peripherally discusses Israel into a battleground. You have been topic banned before for engaging in this type of battleground mentality and it is apparent from your recent edits that you intend on going down the same path that previously got you banned.--Jiujitsuguy (talk) 20:44, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Jiujitsuguy, could you please explain why you moved this synagogue in the Palestinian territories and added it to the Israel section? --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 20:53, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Western Hemisphere
The article states that Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Recife, Brazil, was the first synagogue erected in the "Western Hemisphere". But it was built in 1636, while the same article shows XII century's synagogues built in Spain. The most used definition for "Western Hemisphere" describes anything to the west of Greenwich, thus including Spain. So I changed "Western Hemisphere" to "Americas" in the sentence, as it was indeed the first in America. I made similar changes in other sections that claimes anything about "Western Hemisphere". I also changed the sentence about a "17th century Portuguese synagogue", as it was Ducth, not Portuguese. 189.119.152.128 (talk) 04:25, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Age cutoff
By definition wouldn't the date of the destruction of the temple be the earliest a synagogue structure would make sense? 174.71.7.185 (talk) 15:27, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

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"Republic of Macedonia"
As this is not the actual name of the country, Wikipedia should refrain from using a misleading name. I understand that the main article regarding the country also has to change. Onoufrios d (talk) 20:34, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
 * This is, indeed, the actual name of the country despite Greece's laughable copyright infringement claim against it. The entire world (except the Greeks, of course) commonly calls this country "Macedonia" and this people "Macedonians".  "FYROM" is only used by official organizations because they got tired of listening to the Greek delegations scream and prevent any work from getting done.  Once the Greek children had been calmed, they continue to use "Macedonia" behind the Greeks' backs.  --Taivo (talk) 22:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

Unsupported claim in Worldwide section
At the beginning of the Oldest Synegoges section the following text if found:

The oldest synagogue fragments were thought to be stone synagogue dedication inscriptions stones found in middle and lower Egypt and dating from the 3rd century BCE. However recent archaeological digs have uncovered First Temple remains dating from the 8-6th C BCE.

This bolded sentence lists as a source this Times of Israel article about new archeological digs at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. While this source seems reputable, the article makes no mention whatsoever to "First Temple remains" as is claimed in the sentence. I think this claim should probably just be removed, but I thought I'd see if there were other opinions first. Skoulikomirmigotripa (talk) 22:46, 30 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Quite so. I'm removing it. This is not an article about Jewish remains, but about synagogues. Zerotalk 01:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Urgent update
Hello, I just looked at some entries and I think this list needs an urgent update. Especially the part concerning Ukraine is a joke: just two synagogues are mentioned and one of these was built in the late 19th century. A quick look at List of synagogues in Ukraine shows that there are four from the 16th century and ten+ from the 17th century.

I created some lists by country (mid-eastern Europe) on the German Wikipedia and tranfered two to the English (one more was written by someone else based on the German version (Slovakia)).

Too I wrote a good few artices in German about synagogues in these countries.

I had envisaged to translate many of them into English, but two things put me off:


 * I do not think a list that has links to articles and one or two words of explanation plus a picture needs citations; these should always be given in the articles themselves. But the first thing that is done once I place the list onto Wikipedia is that it is tagged with: as done recently in List of synagogues in Poland. When I remarked on these in the talk-page, it remained unanswered, and probably will be there forever.


 * Too: for many synagogues it is hard to find any reliable source, and when I cite just the one that is available it too is tagged in this way and only after some discussion it is removed.


 * I think the rating-system does not encourage anybody to write about topics that are not mainstream; nearly all where classified with low importance - very motivating to work sometimes for hours to find sources and pictures and write about the subject to be told afterwards: your work is not very important.

--Wanfried-Dublin (talk) 11:22, 21 March 2021 (UTC)