Dear List,
In answer to Michelle Franger's posting:

Maybe this has to do with the (preferred) Sephardic pronunciation of Hebrew?
My family background is Ashkenazi on both sides, (southwestern Podolia
around Kamenets-Podolsk) but when I was a child in New York in the 1940s my
father insisted on our attending a Sephardi synagogue and Hebrew school to
retain the Hebrew pronunciation as spoken in Israel.

Drora Pershing Maynard
Bayside, New York.

Nov'ushitze: BERKOVICH, BERCOVICH; LANDA; Zamechov: FAERSTEIN; FLEISCHMAN.