Re: place of publication: Genoa or Geneva?

I think the problem is that "Genova" and "Geneva" look the same in unpointed Hebrew. 

Suzanne M. Stauffer, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor 
School of Library and Information Science 
Louisiana State University 
275 Coates Hall 
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 
(225)578-1461 
Fax: (225)578-4581 
stauffer@...
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? 
--T.S. Eliot, "Choruses from The Rock" 

________________________________

From: AUTOCAT on behalf of Daniel Stuhlman
Sent: Mon 2/1/2010 2:19 PM
To: AUTOCAT@...
Subject: Re: [ACAT] place of publication: Genoa or Geneva?

At 01:29 PM 02/01/2010, you wrote:
>This isn't strictly a cataloging question, so I may post to more
>than one list.
>
>The city of publication is either Genoa or Geneva. Most similar
>items in WorldCat list Geneva, but my colleague thinks it more
>likely that a Hebrew title from that time would have been published
>in Genoa. Given that the Italian name for that city is Genova, it