According to current MARC language list on Catalogers Desktop, the MARC code to use is the one for Yiddish. LCSH also considers Judeo-German to be a synonym for Yiddish. I check this a few minutes ago from home.--Aaron
P.S. What exactly is Judeo-German other than Yiddish (presumably the almost defunct western dialect). The native speakers of Yiddish I've met seem to insist that it is perfectly kosher to include any German (or English, or Hebrew) word in Yiddish. If you try basing a definition based on vocabulary or accent, you end with a definition that leaves "modern" Yiddish (still a living language in some Ashkenazi Hareidi communities) as a separate language from the secular Yiddish of YIVO or Sholem Aleichem. Romanization (always a stupid idea) is always probematic for Yiddish since LC bases its Romanization on YIVO which is a composite of dialects (if one based Romanization on the most frequently used dialect, then it would be solid southeastern which sounds offensive to many "Litvaks"). --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
