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Accessing the media content
The audio and visual materials in the Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive are available only to Dartmouth users and other approved scholars
and researchers. To request a login, please send email to djsa@webster.dartmouth.edu.
Getting set up
QuickTime
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Spellings: Some guidelines
- In all cases, the spelling of names and titles in roman characters is given just as it appears on the label or jacket.
- At the same time, for easier searching, we have been adding a further romanization of Hebrew and Yiddish titles in
accordance with standard Israeli or Yiddish pronunciation and the friendliest conventions of romanization. This appears in square
brackets.
- In some cases, we have also added alternative spellings of names.
Some useful details of our romanization
- The vowels 'a,e,i, o, u' are used as in the following Hebrew examples: 'yisrael, yeled, yehi ratzon, sukot'.
- The diphthongs 'ay, ey' are used thus: 'beney yisrael, od yosef chay'.
- The Hebrew letters 'chet' and 'chaf' have been romanized as 'ch'. For Yiddish, we have followed the YIVO convention and used 'kh'.
- The letter 'tzadi' is 'tz': 'yitzchak, tziyon'.
- The letters 'kaf' and 'kuf' are 'k'.
- Word-final 'heh' is not shown, thus 'shana'.
- We use single rather than double letters, thus 'chanuka, shabat, kadish'.
- Alef and ayin are not shown except to avoid misreadings, thus 'baal, pe'er'.
- After a prefixed 'ha, be, le' and other prepositions, the word has been given a capital for ease of recognition. Thus 'haBoker'. This is
not search-sensitive.
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