Re: Cataloguing: Transliterating Hebrew

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HI Bob:

The late, great Yiddish singer-songwriter's name
appears in the following versions:

French, US and Argentine recordings:  Benzion Witler.
Israeli recording:  Ben Zion Vitler.

Wolf



wiener (at) mindspring(dot)com wrote:

> I believe that we learned here that YIVO has standardized the
> transliteration of Yiddish into English.
>
> But is there a standard (e.g., Library of Congress) system for
> transliterating Hebrew into English?  If so, where can it be found?
>
> Specifically, I'm interested in the transliteration of: Ben-Tziyon,
> Benzion (used by Wolf for Witler, I seem to recall)....
> If there is no standard transliteration, how would you transliterate
> this name?
>
> Bob
>

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