[Heb-NACO] Yashuv or yishuv?

[Marlene Schiffman]

I always tend to romanize according to the biblical reference. I reason that, if the author intended a pun, he based it on knowledge of the biblical verse familiar to his presumed readers. Whenever we have particularly perplexing phrase, we look it up in the concordance, and sure enough, it is usually a biblical quotation.

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From: Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces+schiffma=yu.edu at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Gottschalk, Haim
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 8:04 AM
To: 'Hebrew Name Authority Funnel'
Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] Yashuv or yishuv?

The verses in Isaiah do say Yashuv. The phrase “She’ar Yashuv” means remnant. I think yashuv is more correct.
Haim

From: Heb-naco [mailto:heb-naco-bounces+hgot=loc.gov at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Freedman, Vanessa
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 6:12 AM
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Subject: [Heb-NACO] Yashuv or yishuv?

A colleague of mine has raised the following query. The work in question is שאר ישוב Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 729 [1968].

“I was cataloguing a revised edition of a well-known work by Itzhak Ben Zvi, about the return of the scattered remnants of Jewish communities (English title: Remnants of ancient Jewish communities in the Land of Israel).  Amazingly, all entries in OCLC of this edition romanise the second word as ‘yishuv’, despite the source references  in Isaiah 7: 3 and 10: 21, in which it is clear that the correct romanisation is ‘yashuv’.”

Is he right? I must admit I read it as yishuv, but clearly I don’t have his level of biblical knowledge!

Thanks

Vanessa


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