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Searching Hebraica Titles in Penn’s Online Catalog: Why search by romanization?

Why search by romanization?

Knowing LC romanization helps with both Author and Title searches:
  • Once you know the romanized form, that search retrieves all records, both those with Hebrew script and those with only romanized content.
  • The romanized search also retrieves translations of the author’s works
  • For works about the author (criticism, bibliographies, etc.), one must use the romanized form as well (since subject headings are in English or in the romanized form of the author).
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