Re: Cataloguing: Transliterating Hebrew

[wiener <wiener...>]

Eliott,

Thanks.  I'll follow up on that.

Any specific suggestion for Bentsiyon(?).  Spelling?  Hyphenated?  2
separate words?

I may need to know the answer for personal reasons pretty soon and may
not be able to get over to JTS in time.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Eliott Kahn <Elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Cataloguing: Transliterating Hebrew


>Bob:
>
>There is a Library of Congress standardized romanization scheme for
both
>Yiddish and Hebrew. We need it to catalog materials in software
>programs--most of which don't carry Hebrew fonts. I believe the
Yiddish  is
>slightly different from YIVO's and the Hebrew--one does need to know
Hebrew
>grammar to use it.
>
>The edition I have before me is entitled:
>HEBRAICA CATALOGING: A Guide to ALA/LC Romanization and Descriptive
>Cataloging. Prepared by Paul Maher. Washington, D.C.: Cataloging
>Distribution Service, 1987.
>
>You may order it from the Cataloging Distribution Service, Customer
>Services Section, Library of Congress, Washington DC 20541 (202)
287-6100.
>(Sorry, don't have their URL.).
>
>Or just come down and take a look at it here.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Dr. Eliott Kahn
>Music Archivist
>Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
>3080 Broadway
>New York, NY 10027
>
>
>
>At 05:40 AM 5/24/00 -0400, you 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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