Question regarding NAR no2010062352

2010-09-15 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Colleagues Could someone explain why this heading was selected in NAR no2010062352 Happy New Year Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA

Re: how romanize שלומיק?

2010-08-18 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
I am still convinced that the name should be Shelomik (and not Shlomik) - it is a nickname for Shelomoh. and Yes it should be Hedvah u-Shelomik Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies  Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil

Re: Romanization guidelines

2010-06-23 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Colleagues, Joan asked me to forward the following to Heb-Naco This document is intended for people creating new romanization tables or making changes (probably only really sweeping changes, too) to existing romanization tables. It's not intended to describe any existing romanization tables

Re: Yiddish or German

2010-06-17 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
 I'd call it German, but I defer to Those Who Know. Bob Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger wrote: Colleagues You probably remember the long discussion on Hasafran about Judeo-German and Yiddish. Attached are some pages from a booklet I am going to add to our collection. So - is it Yiddish

Re: And now ...

2010-06-03 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Ka'et appears as a word in Even Shoshan, so I guess ve-kha'et is kosher. Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA E-Mail: galro...@osu.edu or

Dos in Yiddish as a pronoun

2010-05-07 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
I have this title: דאָס איז געווען דער אָנהייב As my Yiddish/German knowledge goes - I don't think that דאָס is an article and that it should not be ignored. Am I correct? Yossi -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The

Is it really in Russian

2010-05-07 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
I have in hand Yizkor book for Drahichyn (Belarus) in Yiddish and found OCLC record number 79830682 with Russian script. Can someone verify that there is also a Russian edition of this book? There are also the following records in OCLC: 8746971 79833229 and 221957418 -- Joseph (Yossi)

Oman ha-sipur ha-katsar

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Please notice, The latest book by Maya Arad אמן הסיפור הקצר should be transcribed as Oman ha-sipur and not Aman ha-sipur (I will add a 246 for Aman) See Even-Shoshan 2003 Dictionary. Yossi

Bimkom or Bi-mekom

2010-04-07 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Bimkom or Bi-mekom - this is the question Tirbehu ve-tis'adu Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA E-Mail: galro...@osu.edu or

BRSLV ברסלב

2010-03-09 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
I know Joan will love my next question :-) What is the correct romanization of BRSLV ברסלב Is it Braslav or Breslav or Breslev or something else all forms found in the OCLC data-base In LC: Braslav - 104 times Breslev - 190 times Breslav - 137 times In the Encyclopaedia Judaica (1972) there

Re: BRSLV ברסלב

2010-03-09 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
. Would everyone be satisfied with a standard romanization of Breslev? Joan Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger galro...@osu.edu 3/9/2010 1:45 PM I know Joan will love my next question :-) What is the correct romanization of BRSLV ברסלב Is it Braslav or Breslav or Breslev or something else all

Subject heading: Orthodox Jews

2010-02-03 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Question: Is there a reason that there is no Subject heading for Orthodox Jews or Secular Jews, but there is one for Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim) Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library 355A Thompson Memorial Library The Ohio State University Libraries

Geographic subdivision ... Region

2010-01-04 Thread Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger
Question: Is it Kosher to add Region to any geographic place name? For example: I have a book that deals with military camps around Beer Sheva. Can I use Bersheba Region (Israel)? Do I need to establish the heading in the Subject Authority File? Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head,

Fwd: Draft Cat Com agenda

2009-06-26 Thread Joseph Galron
The following is a message that was posted by Jasmin Nof earlier on Thursday and Friday to the Heb-NACO list, but disappeared before it could be posted (The OSU mail server had a crash on Friday morning) Yossi Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library The Ohio

One more OCLC problem

2009-06-21 Thread Joseph Galron
One point to raise with OCLC is the problem of Gershayim in Hebrew script abbreviations: I use for Gershayim thekey on the Hebrew keyboard (the same key used for quotation mark in English.The Gershayim splits the abbreviations in OCLC to two strings: so צהל or ארהב have a space. Try a Hebrew

Re: Romanization of title

2009-04-30 Thread Joseph Galron
This reminds me of another problem:Last Monday I got a phone call from someone in Arkansas about a title of a book we have in our collection. The book's title is: טרפז : מסע של טייס מסוקים LCCN00290052 The book was transliterated as .Tarpaz The caller from Arkansas wanted to know if it is

Re: Yitshak Berger vs. Yitzhak Berger

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph Galron
not familiar with this author. I guess we could call him and ask him if he is the same. MRS -Original Message- From: owner-heb-n...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu [mailto:owner-heb-n...@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Galron Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:47 PM To: heb-naco

Fw: Yitshak Berger vs. Yitzhak Berger

2009-04-28 Thread Joseph Galron
This message was posted by Chaim Seymour to Hasafran I added Chaim to the Heb-NACO list, and I am posting his message: -- Forwarded message -- From: chaim.seym...@mail.biu.ac.il Subject: berger, yitzhak and Berger, Yitshak Shalom The LCNA has two listings as of above. Has

Help with Syriac

2009-03-20 Thread Joseph Galron
Hi, I have a Syriac version of Proverbs I need help with Romanization of the title The title page is available at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/syriacproverbs Thank you and Shabbat Shalom Yossi - Joseph

OCLC announces the Expert Community Experiment

2009-02-06 Thread Joseph Galron
From: Patton,Glenn patt...@oclc.org Date: Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM Subject: [OCLC-NON-LATIN] OCLC announces the Expert Community Experiment To: oclc-non-latin-script...@oclc.org In response to requests from the cataloging community, OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment which

Yiddish question

2009-01-29 Thread Joseph Galron
How do we Romanize קייט in יידישקייט or וועלטלעכקייט Is it --kayt or is it --keyt I saw both forms in OCLC According to Weinreich's dictionary there is no Patah under the double-Yods - so it looks as Yidishkeyt, on the other side there are 23 records in OCLC with Yidishkeyt and 74 with

Change in OCLC update session day

2009-01-14 Thread Joseph Galron
Dear Shoshanah, Thank you for all your hard work on behalf of our upcoming convention. So many of us are looking forward to the Chicago event and know that it will be exciting, enlightening and very worthwhile. We are very concerned to learn that the OCLC update has been postponed until

Re: Change in OCLC update session day (Fred Isaac)

2009-01-14 Thread Joseph Galron
-- Forwarded message -- From fredis...@aol.com Wed Jan 14 11:38:10 2009 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:36:41 EST Subject: Re: Change in OCLC update session day To: galro...@osu.edu, sseid...@northwestern.edu Cc: david_whiteh...@oclc.org, sdu...@socal.rr.com,

Re: hodesh ha-nehamah

2008-12-04 Thread Joseph Galron
According to this link - it is Hodesh Av http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/toshba/maagal/av.htm Yossi On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joan C Biella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I ask the learned which month this is? It's the month in 5767 to which the introduction of v. 5 of LCCN 2008471837 is

Updating NARs

2008-07-23 Thread Joseph Galron
I have an author that needs an added 4xx (in rom.) The problem is that he might get an added Hebrew script 4xx by OCLC (not done yet) May I add the 4xx (in rom.) or should I wait till OCLC is done with the prepopulation projects of NARs? Yossi -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head,

FW: Non-Latin Script Data in Name Authority Records : Starting next week!

2008-07-11 Thread Joseph Galron
From: Patton,Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:17 AM Subject: [OCLC-NON-LATIN] FW: Non-Latin Script Data in Name Authority Records : Starting next week! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am forwarding with permission this message that was sent to the PCC list late yesterday. While the

LC doc on Hebrew references in NARS

2008-06-19 Thread Joseph Galron
Heidi, I am afraid that a breakfast meeting will not be productive: too limited time, too much noise in the dining hall, too many people around ... Yossi On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Heidi Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday would be my preference since I am leaving Tuesday afternoon.

Locked record: Yigael Monisar

2008-06-18 Thread Joseph Galron
Colleagues, I am trying to update NAR no2008065353 - Yiga'el, Monisar in OCLC and am getting an error message: Replace failed. Master record locked by another user. Is somone working on this record? Yossi -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica Jewish Studies Library The

Re: AJL RAS CatCom agenda items

2008-06-18 Thread Joseph Galron
I think that each language has its own problems that other languages do not have - thinking about Ketiv male and Ketiv haser in Hebrew, different Yiddish transcriptions (YIVO vs. Soviet Yiddish, Yiddish vs. Idish, Unzer vs. Undzer, etc.); use of Hebrew dates in Hebrew fields without the need to

Re: 260$c and Type of date (008/06)

2008-05-08 Thread Joseph Galron
I am against change! (i did not vote for the senator from illinois :-) ) We should explain OCLC and ask them to remove their example. Yossi On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Lovins, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joan, We've been operating with the same understanding as LC going back as far

Re: Year

2008-02-05 Thread Joseph Galron
Aaron There is an article in the Hebrew Wikipedia http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA According to the article, the counting began in the year 312 or 311 B.C. So the year you have is 2317 (it is not be-317 li-shetarot, but 2'317 - the

More then 1 Yuval Goren

2007-12-18 Thread Joseph Galron
For your information!! There are at least two Yuval Goren (there are more) The author of *Madrikh la-nose'a ha-boded* was born in 1953 is a businessman The author of *Inscribed in clay, Kissufim road, Reshit ha-kadarut be-Erets Yisra'el *is* *Professor of Archaeology at Tel-Aviv University --

Re: RAS Cataloging Committee meeting at convention

2007-06-05 Thread Joseph Galron
Daniel, I would like to raise the problem of added title heading in cases that involve ketiv-male and ketiv-haser. We need to decide if we are going with the traditional Israeli librarians rule of Ketiv haser in titles or Ketiv-male-hasar-nikud that is used today in the Israeli Hebrew press

Yiddish Characters in OCLC (from RLIN)

2007-04-18 Thread Joseph Galron
Double Vav (05F0) with TWO Single Vavs 05D5; all Vav-Yod (05F1) with 05D5+05D9 or 2. to change the indexing routine so that Double Yods will be indexes as they were two Single Yods, etc. I hope I did present the facts clearly and correct. Thank you, Joseph Galron-Goldschlager

Yiddish grammar question

2007-02-23 Thread Joseph Galron
To our Yiddish speakers: Back in 1999 I created a NAR for the Jewish Music Alliance (New York) no 99022462 There is a x-ref. from the Yiddish name: Idishn muzik farband Today, after more then 7 years, it looks to me that it should be Idisher muzik farband (I believe the same is in German -

LC substitute (Bernie Rabenstein)

2006-10-19 Thread Joseph Galron
Subject: LC substitute Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:12:08 -0400 From: Rabenstein, Bernie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear comrades, Now that LC has taken itself out of the loop for series = authority, has a group of like-minded librarians come together to take = over for hebrew series entries? I

Re: help with romanization

2004-11-18 Thread JOSEPH GALRON
I did not the book itself, but if I guess correctly, it deals with different shapes of the Bimah in the synagogue. If I am correct then I would suggest: Kuntres be-inyan hishanut ha-bimah. Yossi -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron Columbus, OH 43210 --- Phone: (614) 292-3362 Fax: