Israeli press up to and including the 1960s, which very frequently printed
direct quotations from public figures without enclosing them in quotation
marks. This practice was common even when entire spoken paragraphs were
being transcribed in the press verbatim, so that it is not possible today to
know with certainty when a given quote was in fact a paraphrase. All quota-
tions of this type should therefore be treated as though the reporter may
have been paraphrasing.

A similar difficulty presents itself in the case of Maurice Friedman's ex-
haustive three-volume biography of Martin Buber. This is an extremely
idiosyncratic work, which musters a vast amount of material from Buber's
writings and speeches but without any footnotes and often without quota-
tion marks. Despite this unorthodox method, I have found that Friedman's
"paraphrases" are usually reliable direct quotations. Where I have been un-
able to locate his primary sources, I have therefore treated them in the text
in the same manner as the rest of his quotations, while indicating which
ones are Friedman's paraphrases in the notes at the back of the book.

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