Hi, This is probably unlikely, but in Medieval Catalan (and hence in some Ladino dialects) Jafudà is a form of Yehudah. For instance, google Jafuda Cresques, the Catalan version of Yehudah Cresques.
Neil M. Frau-Cortes UMD On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Robert M. TALBOTT < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D.* Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone (301) 405-9337 [email protected]
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