Talk:Signora Giveret Synagogue

tevyası: tevya: spruce or bimah?
The original version of this article was written in Turkish (!) and included this sentence: The translated this sentence to This was later revised to I was suspicious of the word tevya to refer to the bimah, so I attempted to use Google Translate to find Turkish or Hebrew word like tevya for any of the words (stage, lectern, dais, podium, platform) and failing this, I used Google translate from Turkish to English and found olan tevyası translates to "spruce" and hekal duvarına translates to "wall". So, to
 * Portatif olan tevyası hekal duvarına kaldırılıp tora dolabı ile bütünleştirilmiştir.
 * The portable tevya of Synagogue coalesce with tora cabinet.
 * The portable tevya of Synagogue merges with the tora ark.
 * The portable spruce wall of the synagogue merges with the torah ark.

But then while editing Bema I found
 * Among the Sephardim, it is known as a tevah (literally 'box, case' in Hebrew) or migdal-etz ('tower of wood').


 * References

Steinmetz says Gutmann says Wischnitzer's book does not include the word teva or tevya according to a search on the Google Boooks page.
 * Among Ashkenazim it is called a bimah, and among Sephardim, a tevah.
 * Later Sephardi structures in Holland England and featured a bimah (called tevah) which ...

The original Turkish source for this mysterious sentence is which includes this sentence: which Google Translate renders as:
 * 20. yy'da İtalyan etkisi ile uygulamaya başlanan yeni plan şeması Sinyara Giveret Havrasında da denenmiştir, portatif olan tevyası hekal duvarına kaldırılıp tora dolabı ile bütünleştirilmiştir.
 * The new plan scheme, which was introduced in the 20th century with Italian influence, was also tried in the Sinara Giveret Havaş, portable tevi has been removed to the wall of the hekkal and integrated with the tora cabinet.

Perhaps someone knowledgeable in Turkish can help here. Spruce wall? tevah/bimah? What are we talking about? —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:32, 30 May 2017 (UTC)