<p dir="ltr">Aaron,<br>
The problem was that the cataloger that established the name for Israel Galili didn't know the person and did not know how to transliterate the name (he/she did not have a romanized form of the name and did it according to grammatical rules.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yossi<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 24, 2014 8:44 AM, "Kuperman, Aaron" <<a href="mailto:akup@loc.gov">akup@loc.gov</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">If it is a personal name, why shouldn’t it be Romanized based on the person’s preference. As an example, my surname can be pronounced with the “u” being pronounced as an “oo”(</span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Aharoni;color:#1f497d">וּ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">) sound (which is how I pronounce it) or as a short “u” (an “uh” sound) which is how many people pronounce it, as an “ee” sound (as my grandfather would have pronounced it in Europe, reflecting how Yiddish pronounces </span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Aharoni;color:#1f497d">וּ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">). Why should we transliterate based on a pronounciation for a name that the person with the name never used? --Aaron </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">heb-naco-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:heb-naco-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">heb-naco-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joseph Galron-Goldschlaeger<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> heb-naco<br><b>Subject:</b> [Heb-NACO] Galili vs. Gelili<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Several years ago we had the issue of the correct transliteration of the name<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:red"> <span lang="HE" dir="RTL">גלילי</span></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">There is an historical overview and explanation in the last issue of <a href="http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html" target="_blank">Oneg Shabbat</a>, a blog by Prof. David Asaf of Tel Aviv University<u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html" target="_blank">http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Yossi<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p>
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