[Heb-NACO] How would your Romanize the following word

[Kuperman, Aaron]

It is interesting that it appears that Hebrew-speakers with that name tend to Romanize it, and apparently pronounce it, as it is pronounced in western language, meaning the first letter is a “J”.   We really should be asking what value it is to have a rule that requires making a Romanization that is unintelligible to (non-cataloger) users of our metadata. Hebrew is a living language, and we have rules for dealing with foreign (non-Hebrew)  names more appropriate for Latin or Sumerian.

Aaron Kuperman, LC Law Cataloging Section.
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From: Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Yossi Galron via Heb-naco
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 8:18 PM
To: Gottschalk, Haim <hgot at loc.gov>; Hebrew Name Authority Funnel <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Heb-NACO] How would your Romanize the following word

The problem is that there are two ways to write this name:
ז'ולייט
ג'ולייט
Both forms are Kosher.



On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 20:12 Gottschalk, Haim via Heb-naco <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu<mailto:heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
Dear Friends,

How would you Romanize the name  - ז'ולייט? Would you a. Z’uliyeṭ or b. Z’uleṭ or c. ?

Thanks,
Haim

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