Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:19:40 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Jachidah or Jechidah?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 3/28/2005 2:23:18 AM >>>
>I'm still working on getting the immense TWJ#84 online.  Whoever
>said
>that Don Miller was a stickler for accuracy was very much mistaken.
>It's going slowly because I'm double-checking every name and every
>title.
>
>Usually a quick Google search makes it clear what the correct
spelling
>is, as the correct spelling will get far more hits than any incorrect
>spelling, and the incorrect spellings will mostly be at rather
dubious
>websites.  But I've run into a problem with a review of a story by
>Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Locus, ISFDB, and IBLIST have it as "Jachid
>and Jachidah".  Biblio, Powells, Amazon, and Isbndb have it as
>"Jachid
>and Jechidah".  Does anyone have an actual copy they can check?
>
>I believe it appeared in
>Science Fiction: The Future (1971)
>and
>Wandering Stars (1974)
>
>Thanks.
>
>Maybe it's spelled one way in one collection, and the other way in
>the other?  If not, I'll post corrections to the sites that have
>it wrong.

Ron Kean's note is good, and all I'll just note that the subtitle title
of "Wandering Stars" is "An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy & Science
Fiction".  It was edited by by Jack Dann and has an intro by Isaac
Asimov.  Jack did a secon volume: "MORE WANDERING STARS
An Anthology of Outstanding Stories of Jewish Fantasy & Science
Fiction".  Also with an Asimov intro.

Gosh, that Isaac, he sure a lot of intros...

mjw