[Heb-NACO] Vocalised Yiddish

2025-01-09 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
Is there any guidance on how to romanise vocalised Yiddish when it differs from standardised pronunciation? My current practice is to romanise it according to the vocalisation and add the standard romanisation in a 246 field. Is that correct? And what about words of Hebrew origin? Thanks Vanes

[Heb-NACO] Job vacancy: Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer at University College London

2025-01-07 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
We have a vacancy for a Jewish Collections Project Cataloguer in UCL Special Collections. Please pass this on to anyone you know who might be interested. The purpose of the role is to survey UCL's Hebrew and Jewish rare print and archive collections and to undertake cataloguing projects to open

[Heb-NACO] Romanisation of ייי

2024-06-20 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
How would you Romanise ייי used for the divine name? Records in OCLC for the Hebrew and Latin Bible of 1534 with Sebastian Münster’s translation, which has the Hebrew title מקדש ייי, Romanise it as yeyai, Yeyā and Y''Y. Following HCM I would have thought it should be Y.Y.Y. or possibly YYY. Th

Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanisation of - phot of E. ha-I

2023-08-01 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
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[Heb-NACO] Romanisation of בביזנטיון

2023-07-25 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
How would you Romanise בביזנטיון (in Byzantium)? I would think be-Vizanṭyon but OCLC 1378074102 has be-Bizanṭyon. Would you retain the B after be- because it’s a foreign loan word? Thanks Vanessa Vanessa Freedman Subject Liaison Librarian: Hebrew & Jewish Studies Pronouns: she/her Work pat

[Heb-NACO] British Chief Rabbinate

2022-11-03 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
I've just come across two different LC name headings: Office of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain (ID n 98007553 ) British Chief Rabbinate (ID nr2002012516 ) I'm confused as this is the same organisation surely? Can anyone through any light on this? Thanks Vanessa Vanessa Freedman Subject Liai

[Heb-NACO] Safrut??

2022-04-26 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
Hello wise cataloguers I am cataloguing the following: ‏ אוצר ספרות ישראל : אנתולוגיה בפרוזה ושיר לכל מקצועות היצירה העברית וחזיונותיה למן חתימת כתבי הקדש / ערוך ומסודר ביד י.ל. ברוך. (2nd edition, Vilna: Yehudiyah, 1919) The title is vocalised on the title page with a pataḥ under the sameḥ so

Re: [Heb-NACO] PSA: 246|g--cease and desist request

2022-01-26 Thread Freedman, Vanessa via Heb-naco
Thanks Jasmin. I saw one of these recently and wondered what it was doing there! Best wishes Vanessa Vanessa Freedman Subject Liaison Librarian: Hebrew & Jewish Studies Pronouns: she/her Work pattern: Tues-Thurs 10am to 6pm Main Library UCL Library Services Library, Culture, Collections & Open