At 10:39 PM 3/16/2006, you wrote: >Our library, The Harry Rosenbaum JHS Judaica Library [JHS is short for >Jewish Historical Society of Lower Fairfield County], has been in >existence for several years with that name. Our signage, publicity, >and barcodes state that name.
Send in the grammar police! :-) I'm just kidding. Judaica is a noun. Since the library contains "things," it is a library of Judaica. In English the genitive ending is almost non existent. "Library" of Judaica Library is genitive. "Judaica" is not an adjective and "Judaic" would not be appropriate because that is just not the way we use the word. No one should waste the librarian's time with this. Better they should all learn to speak Hebrew so that they can change the name to The Grand Hebraica and Yiddica Library of Judaic Sources. :-) ( I am trying to be amusing.) Daniel Stuhlman Chicago, IL 60645 dstuhlman @ stuhlman biz http://home.earthlink.net/~ddstuhlman/liblob.htm Librarian's Lobby http://stuhlman.biz Home page Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
