[Heb-NACO] Galili vs. Gelili

[Yossi Galron]

Aaron,
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.

Yossi
 On Mar 24, 2014 8:44 AM, "Kuperman, Aaron" <akup at loc.gov> wrote:

> 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”(וּ ) 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 וּ ).  Why should we transliterate based
> on a pronounciation for a name that the person with the name never used?
> --Aaron
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> *From:* heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:
> heb-naco-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] *On Behalf Of *Joseph
> Galron-Goldschlaeger
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:36 AM
> *To:* heb-naco
> *Subject:* [Heb-NACO] Galili vs. Gelili
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> Several years ago we had the issue of the correct transliteration of the
> name
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>  גלילי
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> There is an historical overview and explanation in the last issue of Oneg
> Shabbat <http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html>, a
> blog by Prof. David Asaf of Tel Aviv University
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> http://onegshabbat.blogspot.com/2014/03/blog-post_2267.html
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> Yossi
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