"Oratory, Temple" ? Re: Kantor Sirota query

[Herbert P Hille <hhil...>]

** High Priority **

Hi 
  I was hoping that perhaps someone might be able and willing  to lend
a hand with a question:
       I am trying to fill in the lettering of a partly  illegible
title on an old (78rpm, 7 inch diameter) one-sided disc recording.
   The title (what I can read of it)  is: 
  " KW[_ _]UOI "
>                                                   or:
  " KW[_ _]DOI "
very probably the first form:    'Kw--uoi'
>
>the rest of the disc reads, line by line:

Gramophone record
manufactured by
The Gramophone Typewriter Ltd.
and Sister Companies
Hebrew Tenor w. choir
>     (w/partly illegible title indicated above)
Kantor Sirota
Warszawa
11647

>     The last numbered line is the "matrix" number of the recording.

        The other evening  I was working my way through (scanning
word-by-word) an available  Hebrew-English  dictionary  using character
transliteration  [the fonts of which I cannot here adequately
reproduce],  beginning w/ the alphabetical k character...
                                    "Kw"     sound 
and ending w/the
                 diphthong     "oi"  
           I found a 4 character word that not only looks very close to
size-right' for the disc's letter spacing, but (even better) a word that
also means:

                              "Oratory in a temple". 
   or
                                   "Temple oratory"

                 However, since I am without any known resources
(existing manufacturer's or other personal music-appreciation
discographies),  I am still unclear as to how to phonetically 
transliterate the term, or how it may have been treated (into Polish?
...and/or considering possible format or style change of
transliterations?) over 80 years ago when the record was made.     
>
     I would appreciate and value any and all other information,
opinion, or '2cents worth'  that anyone else might care to venture on
this subject.
 Thank you
       Herb Hille
hhil (at) loc(dot)gov 


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