<div dir="ltr">I agree that the name is in all likelihood Germanic. Sure enough, the Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher literatur actually gives an entry for Ya[dot]kov, Moysheh. For my money, that's authoritative as far as the 100 goes and a provisional record can be avoided. <br><div><br></div><div>I think the remaining three forms are reasonable, and I'd include them as x-refs just to make access likely, but cataloger judgement should carry the day. </div><div><br></div><div>"Zh" is of course the English speaker's phonetic rendering of the French "J", so I don't think I'd automatically add "Zhakob" to the list of possibilities unless it was attested to in print. My two cents.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy the holidays folks.</div><div><br></div><div>B</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Barry Walfish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry.walfish@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">barry.walfish@utoronto.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;color:#000000;font-size:10pt">My guess is that it's Germanic: Yakob/Jakob. The first two don't seem worth bothering with.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is anyone familiar with the family name <span dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="HE">
יאקאב</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have not been consistent so far in establishing this name. The following forms can be found in the Authority File:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yakab</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yakav</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yakov</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yakob</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can establish it provisionally with the various references, but was wondering if anyone had definitive knowledge.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A</p>
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