Hello folks: I've encountered a name that's got me checking places I don't normally check, and since I've drawn blanks, it's time to check with the group.
Sefer Toldot hakhme ha-Kara'im is the book, and the author is IU. D. Kokizov. On p. 9 his name is given as ha-rav Yehudah (??) ben ha-r. R. Kokhizov. ?? = יופודה Spelled out, that's yud-vav-feh-vav-dalet-heh. Yufudah, Yofodah, Yufodah, Yofodeh, etc.; every single one of the vowels is questionable. More, the feh may be a peh, or may simply be an error (given his geographic region and assuming the the name is a Yehudah derivative, a "g" might more likely since Russian likes to render foreign h's as g's (e.g., Kohen ----> Kagan, etc.) I checked in Beider on the off-chance that yud-vav-feh-vav-dalet-heh is derived from Yehudah, but drew blanks. For the record, Kokhizov was a Karaite who lived in Crimea and later Saint Petersberg, where he vanished in 1917. Please, if you have any notion of what the vocalization of this name might be, please let me know. Bob -- Bob Talbott Principal cataloger/Hebraica cataloger UC Berkeley 250 Moffitt Berkeley, CA 94720 יול נא מי באי מאי בלאק טעלעסקאפ _______________________________________________ Heb-naco mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco
