Talk:Ein Karem

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Naming

The verse cited in Joshua (15:59) actually says כרמל, Carmel/Karmel (referring to the site south of Hebron I believe. The Jerusalem Municipality website lists the neighborhood as Ein Kerem, with a few Ein Karems turning up, and no Ain Karim. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jerusalem maps spell the name Ein Kerem. Additionally, the Hadassah Medical Organization refers to the complex as Hadassah University Hospital Ein Kerem. While I attempted a Google test, it was inconclusive, as while Ain Karim got 315,000 hits and Ein Kerem and Ein Karem only 226,000 and 112,000 respectively, many of the results across the board had nothing to do with the place in Jerusalem. Tewfik^Talk 18:53, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

This is all very nice, but people who live in Jerusalem (and Ein Karem) call it "Ein Karem." The Hadassah website is not an authority - it is written by hired translators who write what they like.--Gilabrand 09:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

POV

user:Tewfik has been very active at 'Israeilzing' pages such as this one... The official 'Israeli' name is Ein Kerem, and can stay that way (while mentioning that the Palestinian village was called Ain Karim). The term Jewish refugees from Morocco and Romania is not accurate. They are immigrants, not refugess. The homes were not abandoned... they were vacated (either by force or by fear). Wikipedia is not a place for points of view or rhetoric. I don't want to start an edit war here, but would appreciate if this is rectified. --Fjmustak 19:44, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello user:Fjmustak,

I explained the rationale for changing the article name above, however let me apologise for not being sufficiently clear about my reasoning. I'm not attempting to ignore the history of the place's previous residents, rather the Arabic and Hebrew are nearly interchangeable in this case. An example of such usage can be found on Palestine Remembered which features Ayn Karim, Ayn Karem, Ein Karim, and Ein Karem. Indeed, Palestine Remembered notes that there are Arab families that live there presently as well.

As for the Moroccans and Romanians, Jewish refugees, Jewish exodus from Arab lands, History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Romania, and Romanian Jews paint them as refugees. Political immigrants (political (e.g, to escape dictatorship or other unfair governments; disagrees over government) persecution and oppression, including genocide, ethnic cleansing, and bullying.) meet the definition described in refugees, though all refugees are technically immigrants as well.

In terms of the abandoned homes, I described what was without the cause simply because I don't know it. If you can find documentation for the circumstances under which the village was vacated, then that should certainly be included. All I was able to find were second-hand references to the village in relation to the Deir Yassin planning.

One last point, if you believe that I've made a mistake or violated Wikipedia policy, please point it out on the appropriate talk pages (the article's and mine). Thanks Tewfik^Talk 04:56, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

and more POV...

Tewfik removes the following text from the article, with the edit-line: (rmv general Jerusalem issues which are dealt with in the main article):

According to the UN General Assembly Resolution 194 in 1948, Ein Karim (with the built-up area of Motsa) was to be the most Western part of the Jerusalem area that was, "in view of its association with three world religions" to be "accorded special and separate treatment from the rest of Palestine and should be placed under effective United Nations control". The United Nations Conciliation Commission in 1949 reaffirmed this statement.

Please show me where this is dealt with? It is not dealt with in History of Jerusalem. There are only 4 places in/around Jerusalem which are mentioned in these two UN papers, and those 4 places represents the Northern-most, Western-most, etc borders of the international area. In other words: this inf. should only in the articles about those 4 Neighbourhoods. Still, this inf. is censored out of this article. Why? I find this a bit absurd. Regards, Huldra 15:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Since nobody have been able to show that this information is anywhere else on Wikipedia, I am reinserting it. Regards, Huldra 12:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Regarding your assertion that I am pushing a POV, I firstly will point you to WP:AGF. As I said in my edit summary, if you think the main Jerusalem subarticle (Positions on Jerusalem) doesn't deal properly with this topic, then discuss it there. However it is both impractical and inappropriate to fork that discussion out to every neighbourhood of Jerusalem. As for links, I'm not sure why you are removing a neutral photo-gallery, or why you feel it is connected to the removal of the political and nonneutral PalestineRemembered, but there is nothing in common between them except for the fact that they are both links. Tewfik^Talk 17:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, talking about assuming good faith...: where have anybody stated that the above paragraph (about the UN resolutions) should be inserted into every neighbourhood of Jerusalem?! When I read you reply, I cannot understand that you can have read what I have written. I said very explicitly that: this inf. should only [be] in the articles about those 4 Neighbourhoods.. ..I of course agree completely with you when you say that "it is both impractical and inappropriate to fork that discussion out to every neighbourhood of Jerusalem" (my "bolding"). I repeat: this inf. should go into exactly 4 Neighbourhoods.

As for external links: The photo-link you add is a private commercial(??) link, showing one side of Ein Kerem. I think any Palestinian (at least from Ain Kerem!) would see it as as much a "propaganda"-link as you ses "Palestineremembered"... you really need some consistent standard here: either you take away *all* private/commercial links, or you leave *all* in. You cannot "only" leave the "picture-postcard" in and leave out the rather darker history. I call that bias. Regards, Huldra 08:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Huldra, changing "captured" to "occupied" as a bypass in your changes raises big question marks over the motive of these edits. Saying that the photo web-site is a propaganda site doesn't make any sense. It includes ONLY IMAGES and of all the CHURCHES in the place. It's just a gallery of images of churches, how can it be pov I don't know. Amoruso 09:33, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Forking should not be done for any amount of articles. A mention of the corpus separatum is certainly in order (and was added by Zero), but a discussion of corpus separatum is not to be had here, but rather on centralised pages. As for the church pictures being POV, I commented below. Tewfik^Talk 19:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

External links

If "some" private links about Ein (Ain) Kerem are cut out; then, in all fairness, all private links should be cut out. Regards, Huldra 12:14, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

If "some" POV private links are cut out, then all POV private links should be cut out. What do you consider to be POV about a photogallery of churches? Tewfik^Talk 19:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Village or neighborhood?

In the past it was a village outside of Jerusalem but today isn't it considered a neighborhood in Jerusalem? Yonatan (contribs/talk) 12:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is a neighborhood of Jerusalem. This whole page needs some serious revision, plus removing most of the photographs, which are very poor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gilabrand (talk • contribs) 09:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC).

William O. Douglas

A book by William O. Douglas is quoted at lenght...however, what is quoted is in direct contradiction what the Israeli leaders at the time wrote/said! So; either Benny Morris + the Israeli leaders at the time are unreliable...or Douglas is unreliable... I suggest that we cut out his quote, possibly keeping one sentence saying something like "William O. Douglas claims otherwise in his book " Strange Lands and Friendly People". Regards, Huldra 18:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree with this suggestion. It also contradicts all other eyewitness accounts I have encountered. It also, I believe, would maintain NPOV is we summarize the quote as suggested since the various eyewitness accounts are similarly summarized.216.95.114.241 (talk) 02:39, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Citations

I would like to request that a less partisan source be supplied for the information regarding the statue of Aphrodite. While I find the information interesting and non-problematic in itself, the source is blatantly partisan. The citation is sourced from a website called "My Holy Land" which declares itself to be "devoted to Christians who support Israel." It is affiliated with the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in Herzliya which is not an authority on archaeology. The aim of the site is a good one: knowledge and understanding amongst peoples and to spread truthful information about Israel. Unfortunately, it goes about this by selectively blacking out swaths of history- ancient and modern. For example, the source of the name is not explained, but they provide - unsourced- information regarding what the ancient Hebrews, Romans, and Crusaders called the area (all of which is new to me). Ein Karem's history ends with the Crusades and appears to begin again in 1919 before falling into silence in the historical record. In other words, there is a historical blackout the duration of the Muslim presence in the territory.

In short, I question the credibility of "My Holy Land" as an objective source of information. I suggest that the citation remain until a suitable replacement citation can be found.

Best regards and keep up the good work.216.95.114.241 (talk) 05:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Palestinian village of the exodus info box

The Palestinian village info box is a necessary part. it hold extra details not held within the text, alternative spelling. Also there is no other info box...plus all the references are included. the rest of the article is extremely short on references....Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 13:47, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

What extra details? Everything is in the article already. The alternative spelling also. Look in the beginning: عين كارم. I've also now added the pronunciation of the alternative spelling, so there is nothing in the infobox that is not in the article. If you want another infobox add one about the current Israeli town of Ein Kerem that summarizes the whole article. An infobox about a minor subject of the article is unnecessary since it'll just occupy unnecessary space without contributing with anything and it'll make the article blurry. Add the references to the article since the article says the same as the infobox. --Fipplet (talk) 14:54, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

all the references and as stated it is standard and goes with the template....it is for a quick guide to aid readers who are scanning...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 14:59, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Please see here for further discussions...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 15:03, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

It won't aid readers. It is such a minor subject that it'll not help, it'll just making the article blurry. What is in the article is already a quick guide really. If this was a big subject i could understand you, but it isn't. It is so minor that it doesn't need a "quick guide". It'll just take space and make the article blurry. Please add a infobox about the current Israeli town that summarizes the whole article. I didn't understand thisreally. Explane it please.--Fipplet (talk) 15:16, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Also what is in the infobox is already in the article. So you can add your references to the article really.--Fipplet (talk) 15:16, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Standard to go with the template on ex-Palestinian villages...some aren't in the article area etc.Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 15:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I actually don't understand what you just said.--Fipplet (talk) 15:53, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Standard info box goes with then standard template some of the references are not in the article and this article is very short on references...some of the referenced information is not covered within the text of the article...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 16:05, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I actually still don't understand. Why don't you add your references to the article since it's the same information in the article as in your infobox? Fipplet (talk)

I wasn't the one taking out the referenced information...Please use general discussion on mergers...Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 16:20, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

I think it's good now.

incorrect link

The word "maqam" (under "Mary's Spring") is linked to a wikipedia page about the musical term "maqam," and not as it is meant in this article. I'm newly registered here and don't know anything about editing articles, so hopefully someone else will fix that. Thank you.--Alajnabiya (talk) 16:49, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

Saewulf

We have "The Anglo Saxon Saewulf on pilgrimage to Palestine in 1102-1103 wrote of a monastery in the area of Ein Karim dedicated to St. Sabas where 300 monks had been 'slain by Saracens'". This is a correct report of what is in the source, which is a good book by Sharon that copies the report from Guerin (Judee I, p. 94). However, a more direct source, the Palestine Pilgrim Society's edition and translation of Saewulf seems to say something different:

On the western side of the Church of Holy Cross, about three miles off, is a very beautiful and very large monastery in honour of St. Sabas, who was one of the seventy-two disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. There are more than three hundred Greek monks now living in community, and serving our God and the saint. Of the brethren, the greater part were cut off by the Saracens, but some within the walls of the city, near the Tower of David, live in another monastery devoted to the same saint. The other monastery was entirely given to destruction. (p.21)

This reads to me as if there were 300 monks living at the time of Saewulf's visit, not that 300 had been slain earlier. In case there is a Latin scholar in the house, here is the original text:

In occidentali parte Ecclesle sancte crucis quasi trium miliarium est monasterium pulcherrimum et maximum in honore sancti SABE qui fuit unus ex septuaginta duobus discipulis domini nostri ihesu-Christi. Ibi iam monachi Greci plusquam trecenti cenobialiter uiuentes deo sanctoque seruierunt ; quorum fratrum maxima pars a sarracenis perempta, quidam uero infra urbis muros iuxta turrem david in alio monasterio eiusdem sancti deuote famulantur. Aliud uero monasterium omnino in desolationem est dimissum. (p.45)

Zero^talk 12:39, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

The first source seems correct. As I read it, Saewulf says that three hundred monks had lived there previously, but that they were gone at the time of writing. Most of them had been killed by the Saracens, but some had relocated to another monastery. servierunt is perfect tense, meaning "(have) lived", not "are living". iam has several meanings, including "now", but here it should probably be read as "a little while ago" (Lewis & Short, "jam", under I.B.). desolatio here probably means "desolation" in the sense of "emptiness", not "destruction", since the large monastery is still standing, according to the first sentence, even though the monks are gone. Iblardi (talk) 22:22, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

If you want a word-for-word translation:

1.

Ibi: "there"

iam: can have several meanings; when temporally: "hitherto", or "a little while ago", or "already"; or to mark a transition in the narrative: "then"; or for emphasis: "indeed", "now"

monachi Greci plusquam trecenti: "Greek monks, more than three hundred"

cenobialiter uiuentes: "living cenobitically"

deo sanctoque seruierunt: "(have) served God and the saint";

2.

quorum fratrum: "of these brothers"

maxima pars a sarracenis perempta [est]: "the greatest part was killed by the Saracens";

3.

quidam uero: "some, however,"

infra urbis muros: "under the walls of the city"

iuxta turrem david: "next to the tower of David"

in alio monasterio eiusdem sancti: "in another monastery of the same saint"

deuote famulantur: "are serving piously".

4.

Aliud uero monasterium: "The other monastery, however,"

omnino in desolationem est dimissum: "has been left to abandonment entirely".

Iblardi (talk) 13:10, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

That's great, thanks. It seems the text as it stands should not be adjusted. Zero^talk 03:20, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Merge

This was split in two articles, this and Ayn Karim, without discussion. The split does not make much sense to me, and I propose a merge, Huldra (talk) 20:22, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

At the moment, the division doesn't work too well. One article would be better. Zero^talk 23:33, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Ok, so there is agreement(?) (at least: no disagreement) that these two articles should be merged.....but how do we proceed? Oh, and we have the exact same at Qira, Haifa and Qamun. --Huldra (talk) 22:57, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Agreed and  Done Klbrain (talk) 12:35, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

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Why is it depopulated instead of ethnically cleansed? Seems like erasure of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Idontknowanythingok (talk • contribs) 23:19, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits

(1) Re your query. Dresser of the soil, in Latin a politor (classically =weeder) was someone who cared for the land esp after weeding by adding manure or composts of various marls, lime etc. Contemporary technical English tends to add top- as in say top-dress, but the idiom is perfectly recognisable to a native English speaker of a certain age, and in this case, it is the standard translation for the monastic use of politor, for manuring was one of the key functions in tending plants.Nishidani (talk) 09:11, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Edit request 13 October 2025

Description of suggested change:

Presently, the captions on the images for the Convent of the Sisters of Zion and the Gorny Convent both unexpectedly link to the Hebrew-language Wikipedia without any indication of being interwiki links. From other articles I've read over the years, I'm under the impression that the standard way of handling a case where a foreign language article exists but no corresponding native language article exists is to use the {{Interlanguage link}} (or {{ill}}) template to provide a properly formatted link to the article of the appropriate foreign language wiki. Hence I think it would be best to change these captions to use the aforementioned template to provide the appropriate formatting.

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[[File:NotreDameDeSionEinKaremJuly022024 01.jpg|thumb|[[:he:מנזר האחיות ציון (עין כרם)|Convent of the Sisters of Zion]]]]

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[[File:NotreDameDeSionEinKaremJuly022024 01.jpg|thumb|{{ill|Convent of the Sisters of Zion|he|מנזר_האחיות_ציון_(עין_כרם)}}]]

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[[File:GornyMonasteryFeb142022 04.jpg|thumb|[[:he:מנזר גורני|Gorny Convent]]]]

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[[File:GornyMonasteryFeb142022 04.jpg|thumb|{{ill|Gorny Convent|he|מנזר_גורני}}]]

209.93.31.184 (talk) 02:17, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Partly done: I added an interlanguage link to Gorny Convent. Convent of the Sisters of Zion has an English Wikipedia article, which I added a link to. Day Creature (talk) 15:54, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

On further review, I see that the Convent of the Sisters of Zion with the English wiki article is actually a different convent, located in the Old City of Jerusalem. So I've reverted back to the original Hebrew link. The interlanguage link template can't be used here because it will end up pointing to the (incorrect) English article. Day Creature (talk) 16:01, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Edit request 2 December 2025

Description of suggested change: In History -> State of Israel, I think "inmigrants" may be a typo. At least, mentioning their origin would imply the person who wrote this intended to describe their immigration.

I could be wrong, if the sentence means wikt:inmigrant specifically, but then the wikilink is also very wrong. (Aliya does not refer to moving from one part of a country to another, as "inmigrants" implies.)

I cannot currently edit ECP pages, so if someone else could do this, that would be great.

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The abandoned homes were resettled with [[Aliyah|inmigrants]], many of whom [[Mizrahi Jews]] who [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world|fled from the Arab countries]] who fought the Arab-Israeli War

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The abandoned homes were resettled with [[Aliyah|immigrants]], many of whom [[Mizrahi Jews]] who [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world|fled from the Arab countries]] who fought the Arab-Israeli War

Thanks in advance, happy editing. Slomo666 (talk) 15:26, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

doneרמרום (talk) 15:57, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Marked  Done by רמרום. Toast1454_TC 16:22, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

crusader period name

It is mentioned under the name St. Jehan de Bois, "Saint John in the Mountains",

Are these two separate contemporaneous names for it? Because "St Jehan de Bois" would mean "of the woods", not "in the mountains" Bdoing (talk) 02:36, 4 August 2026 (UTC)