Note on Transliteration

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Note on Transliteration

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The transliteration of Hebrew in books published by the Littman Library reflects consideration of the type of books they are, in terms of their content, purpose, and readership. The system adopted therefore reflects a broad, non-specialist approach to transcription rather than the narrower approaches found in the Encyclopaedia Judaica or other systems developed for text-based or linguistic studies. The aim has been to reflect the pronunciation prescribed for modern hebrew rather than the spelling or hebrew word structure, and to do so using conventions that are generally familiar to the english-speaking reader.

In accordance with this approach, no attempt is made to indicate the distinctions between alef and ayin, tet and taf, kaf and kuf, sin and samekh, since these are not universally relevant to pronunciation; likewise, the dagesh is not indicated except where it affects pronunciation. following the principle of using conventions familiar to the majority of readers, however, transcriptions that are well established have been retained even when they are not fully consistent with the transliteration system adopted. on similar grounds, the tsadi, although generally ts, is rendered by ‘tz’ in such familiar anglicized words as ‘barmitzvah’. Likewise, the distinction between et and khaf has been retained, using for the former and kh for the latter; the associated forms are generally familiar to readers, even if the distinction is not always borne out in pronunciation, and for the same reason the final heh is indicated too. as in hebrew, no capital letters are used except that an initial capital has been retained in transliterating titles of published works (for example, Shulh. an arukh).

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