Hallo all The Mishnah Berurah is a commentary on Rabbi Yosef Caro's Shulhan Aruch compiled by the Hafez Hayyim. The standard editions are published with Caro's text. It would seem logical to catalog the work under Caro! However the practice in the States is to catalog the editions under the Hafez Hayyim ignoring the presence of the text ot the Shulhan Arukh.
In Israeli libraries, the practice varies, some libraries enter editions under the Hafez Hayyim and others under Caro. Isn't it time we worked out a uniform approach? Chaim Chaim Seymour Head of Cataloging and Classification Wurzweiler Libary Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel, 52900 chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il Tel: 972-3-5318127, Fax 972-3-7384065
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