[Heb-NACO] Sans clue

[Robert M. TALBOTT]

Thanks Neil.




On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Neil Manel Frau-Cortes <nfrau at umd.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably unlikely, but in Medieval Catalan (and hence in some Ladino
> dialects) Jafudà is a form of Yehudah. For instance, google Jafuda Cresques,
> the Catalan version of Yehudah Cresques.
>
>
> Neil M. Frau-Cortes
>
> UMD
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Robert M. TALBOTT
> <rtalbott at library.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks:
>>
>> I've encountered a name that's got me checking places I don't normally
>> check, and since I've drawn blanks, it's time to check with the group.
>>
>> Sefer Toldot hakhme ha-Kara'im is the book, and the author is IU. D.
>> Kokizov.  On p. 9 his name is given as ha-rav Yehudah (??) ben ha-r.
>> R. Kokhizov.
>>
>> ?? = יופודה
>>
>> Spelled out, that's yud-vav-feh-vav-dalet-heh.  Yufudah, Yofodah,
>> Yufodah, Yofodeh, etc.; every single one of the vowels is
>> questionable.  More, the feh may be a peh, or may simply be an error
>> (given his geographic region and assuming the the name is a Yehudah
>> derivative, a "g" might more likely since Russian likes to render
>> foreign h's as g's (e.g., Kohen ----> Kagan, etc.)
>> I checked in Beider on the off-chance that yud-vav-feh-vav-dalet-heh
>> is derived from Yehudah, but drew blanks.
>>
>> For the record, Kokhizov was a Karaite who lived in Crimea and later
>> Saint Petersberg, where he vanished in 1917.
>>
>> Please, if you have any notion of what the vocalization of this name
>> might be, please let me know.
>>
>> Bob
>> --
>> Bob Talbott
>>
>> Principal cataloger/Hebraica cataloger
>>
>> UC Berkeley
>>
>> 250 Moffitt
>>
>> Berkeley, CA 94720
>>
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>
> Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D.
>
> Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger
>
> McKeldin Library
>
> University of Maryland
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>
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-- 
Bob Talbott

Principal cataloger/Hebraica cataloger

UC Berkeley

250 Moffitt

Berkeley, CA 94720

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