[Heb-NACO] Obvious error in romanized form of name

[Kuperman, Aaron]

I looked in Google and for some people named "Levu" and even found some  who were also a Jacob/Yaakov.  One should note that in some dialects of Yiddish the "oo" sound becomes an "ee" sound, so it is possible that the non-Jewish clerk  recording the name assumed that some calling himself "lev--ee" was really a "lev-uu" with a southeastern (Galicianer) accent.  If the sources spells it one way, we shouldn't be trying to outguess the publisher - unless you can find it Romanized elsewhere (such as in Facebook or LinkedIn or the person's website).

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section. 
This is not an official communication from my employer


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From: Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces+akup=loc.gov at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Robert M. TALBOTT
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 12:44 PM
To: Hebrew Name Authority Funnel
Subject: [Heb-NACO] Obvious error in romanized form of name

Folks:

I encountered a problem this morning.  I have an author whose name appears both in Hebrew and in Latin script.  The problem is that the romanized form has an obvious error.  In Hebrew, Yaakov Levi but in Latin script, Yakov Levu.  I've looked on the web, and I haven't found any Latin script versions of his name. So what should the heading be?

A workable solution would be to code the record as provisional and make the Hebrew script form of the name the provisional authorized access point, but there may be better ways.  Any ideas?

Bob

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Bob Talbott

Principal cataloger/Hebraica cataloger

UC Berkeley

250 Moffitt

Berkeley, CA 94720

יול נא מי באי מאי בלאק טעלעסקאפ
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