[Heb-NACO] Romanization: ayin lamed zayin vav zayin

[Robert M. TALBOTT]

Thank you Zachary.

Bob


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Zachary M Baker <zbaker at stanford.edu>wrote:

> For a YIDDISH-language gazetteer (one that also includes traditional
> Hebrew spellings for thousands of place names in Europe and North Africa)
> see Berl Kagan's Sefer haprenumerantn (Hebrew Subscription Lists),
> published by JTS in the mid-1970s.
>
> Zachary
>
> Zachary M. Baker
> Stanford University Libraries
> Stanford, CA 94305-6004
> zbaker at Stanford.edu
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Jasmin Nof <jnof at upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, the record with 'Elzuz may indeed be "the 'droid" you're looking
> for.  you may wish to add 246's with alternate romanizations though.  Since
> it is referring to Alsace, I'd probably go with 'Alzoz and/or 'Alzuz.  ymmv.
>
> Best wishes, jasmin
>
> On 5/14/2013 12:59 PM, Robert M. TALBOTT wrote:
>
>    Folks:
>
>  A pair of queries:
>
>  1)  I have a sad little seder selihot here at my desk and it purports to
> be ke-minhag [ayin lamed zayin vav zayin].  One the one hand, I'm pretty
> sure that string of letters refers to Alsace.  On the other, I can only
> guess at how it's vocalized.  OCLC has "Elzuz" but I suspect this is not
> the 'droid I was looking for.  Please, if you have clue (and you just
> might!) let me know before I have to guess.
>
>  2) Hebrew language gazetteers for a place other than Israel.  Surely they
> must exist.  If anyone has a recommendation, I'd be grateful.
>
>  Cheers
>
>  B
>
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> Bob Talbott
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Bob Talbott
Hebraica Cataloger
UC Berkeley
250 Moffitt
Berkeley, CA 94720

We're happy as fish,
as gorgeous as geese,
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