Thanks Yossi. Such a cute story!  Loved it and was laughing out loud all by 
myself after my volunteer shift
Be well
Shoshanah

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Well, I don’t agree with the notion that we have to transcribe the non-Hebrew 
names according to the rules of the Hebrew language.

A search in the OCLC database found 1266 hits for “be-Polin” (of those there 
are 146 records from the Library of Congress) and 140 hits for “be-Folin” (of 
those there are 2 records from LC).

Hebrew place name (Bene Berak, Berit ha-mo’atsot, etc.) should be transcribed 
according to the Hebrew grammar rules (i.e bi-Vene Berak, bi-Verit ha-moatsot, 
etc.)



That reminds me on the story about the discussion in the Israeli Kenesset in 
the 1950s when Rabbi Fishman of the Mafdal party  complained that the 
government does not encourage the use of proper grammatical rules, especially a 
case of Dagesh in the letters Bet, Gimel, Dalet, Kaf, Peh and Tav when they are 
at the beginning of a word. David Ben Gurion answered – “Mar Pishman tsodek”, 
and that ended the discussion.



Yossi





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Hi Vanessa, Grammatically speaking, I would Romanize it as be-Vizant. yun. It 
is a foreign loan word. However, that said, in check in our database for 
בברוקלין (in Brooklyn), I found the Romanization as bi-Bruḳlin. However, that 
said I also

Hi Vanessa,



Grammatically speaking, I would Romanize it as be-Vizant.yun. It is a foreign 
loan word. However, that said, in check in our database for בברוקלין (in 
Brooklyn), I found the Romanization as bi-Bruḳlin. However, that said I also 
search for בבני ברק and found bi-Vene Berak. My inclination would be to have 
the B instead of a V, for the sake of searching, similar to the idea of how we 
Romanize בירושלים as bi-Yerushalayim instead of birushalayim.



My 3.37 cents.



Best,

Haim

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How would you Romanise בביזנטיון (in Byzantium)? I would think be-Vizanṭyon 
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How would you Romanise  בביזנטיון (in Byzantium)? I would think be-Vizanṭyon 
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