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Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers

INTRODUCTION

Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Gorfinkle, Joseph I. (Joseph Isaac)
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Die Spruche der Vater umlaut over the u and the a
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Maximes des Peres grave over the last e
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role circumflex over the o
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footnote 9 Jewish Encyclopedia: in the source, the word Jewish was not italicized
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[s] the document contained a special character known as "section sign", resembling two lower-case s's one above the other.
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Spruchen umlaut over tue u in
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Beitragen umlaut over the a
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Spruche umlaut over the a
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Tubingen umlaut over the u
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ubertragen umlaut over the u
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uberzetzt umlaut over the u
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erklart umlaut over the a
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Maimonide umlaut over the i (in this French title)
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Introduction a la … umlaut over the first a
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Peres grave accent over the first e
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fur Geschichte umlaut over the u
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ursprunglicher umlaut over the second u
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Jahrbucher fur Jud umlauts over all three u's
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Friedlander, M. umlaut over the a. Same in Chapter I, notes 4, 10, 11, 13, 18 etc. There is no umlaut in the next entry, "Friedlander, G."
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samtlichen Bucher umlauts over the a and u
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Chaine circumflex over the i, and wherever this word appears elsewhere in the book (e.g. Introduction, notes 5 and 8).
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Loeb … Pirke Abot acute accent over the e in Pirke, for both entries
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ecole acute accent over the first e
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Etudes acute accent over the first e
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le chapitre Ier final er is superscript (premier)
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Schurer umlaut over the u
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Vortrage umlaut over the a
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The source text included the following two lines: "All Israel," etc., p. 29 and "Rabbi Chanania," etc., p. 38. as the first and last line of each chapter, the page numbers referring to the beginning and ending of Chapter I. Rather than reference these two sentences as the source text did, this text version copies the two sentences to their intended locations. The transcriber believes this better captures the flavor of the text.
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R. Meir umlaut over the i, wherever this name appears
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footnote 23 mutual assistance. as Agudat Achim period and lower-case 'as' are as found in the source text
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footnote 45 Chald. Worterbuch: umlaut over the o
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happy art thou in this world, and in the source text, the comma was a period.
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tables of stone are as written in the source text as a translation of the Hebrew "luchot"; modern readers may better recognize the phrase 'tablets of stone'.
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footnote 23 archaol.: umlaut over the second a.
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footnote 5 to individuals or to number of persons: is as written in the source text

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Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, Project Gutenberg eBook #8547

THE ACQUISITION OF THE TORAH (1)