This is an autocat discussion of an English adapation of a Sholom Aleichem story. What sort of connection should there be? --Aaron
Aaron Wolfe Kuperman (LC, Social Sciences Cataloging Division) This note is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:29:42 -0600 From: Aaron Kuperman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Uniform title: Kapores/chickens on strike Hal Cain wrote: > I notice LC has a record for a book of this title, LCCN 2001040397, in > which they've given main entry to the adapter (Erica Silverman) and added > entry to the author of the source story (in direct order: Sholem Aleichem, > 1859-1916; pre-AACR2, Rabinowitz, Shalom, 1859-1916). The cataloguer > hasn't identified the title of the original tale. There's an LC record > (75950274, A vayse kapore) under the old form of name, but having no > Yiddish I can't get any further with this. > Unless there's further evidence I would content myself with making a note, > quoted if possible, of the information from the cover. 1. At LC the book was cataloged by a team that routinely does English juvenile literature rather than by the Hebraica team. The book is so changed through adaptation, I feel a main entry based on the uniform title for the original would be of limited intellectual integrity. 2. It could be that the record should have had an author-title entry for the original work, which I believe LC may not own (I believe I found a record for it in RLIN, and I would consider YIVO Institute's cataloging to be the most reliable). I found two RLIN records with works with the word "Kapores" in the title that were authored by Sholom Aleichen. 3. If you are really fanatical, feel free to contract YIVO and send in a NACO authority record. 4. I tend to think the book is a very distorted adapation, noting that the "Kapores" ritual has more to do with Yom Kippur than Rosh ha-Shana, and that it is highly unlikely that "Russia" was the correct geographic qualifier since during the period in question Jews were largely banned from living in "Russia" (as now defined by LCSH based on the current boundaries of the Russian Federation), and that "Ukraine" is the more probable setting, though I do agree some access to the original is required. Aaron (definitely not official LC policy) Aaron Wolfe Kuperman (LC, Social Sciences Cataloging Division) [EMAIL PROTECTED] This note is NOT an official communication from the Library of Congress. ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
