Note on Spelling and Translations

Note on Spelling and TranslationsThroughout this book, I transcribed Yiddish and Hebrew terms, phrases, and titles of works with Latin characters according to the standard YIVO transcription system and the guidelines set forth in the second edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, respectively.However, when Yiddish or Hebrew words were quoted from the German primary sources or from secondary literature in German or English, they appear in the same transliteration as found in the original text.Early modern Yiddish, which stands at the center of this book, was usually referred to in Germany of the nineteenth and early twentieth century as Jüdisch-deutsch (Jewish-German), and this is also the term that was commonly used by the book's protagonists, the German-Jewish scholars and authors of the time.For the sake of consistency and convenience, and in line with present-day terminology, I use the term "Yiddish" throughout the book, also when quoting from the German-Jewish sources.However, when