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A Note on the Documents

This edition remains faithful to Gabriel Arié’s text. We have conserved his spelling of the names of individuals. We have also replicated his transliteration of Hebrew, giving a more precise one in a note when that seemed necessary. We have corrected a few spelling errors here and there. Gabriel Arié often gives two dates for a single event, that of the Julian calendar and that of the Gregorian calendar, which are thirteen days apart; we have maintained them. We have systematically compared the information in the narrative with that in the genealogical tree provided by the family and have noted any possible discrepancies. We were unable to identify certain names of cities cited by Arié. We have changed the place names to reflect the English usage of the time to facilitate the reader’s comprehension, giving modern equivalents in brackets or in the notes upon first mention. The principal cities of Bulgaria appear on the map; we give information in a note only on the smaller towns. Generally, we have been careful in our notes to give an accurate idea of the itineraries followed by Arié and his family throughout Bulgaria and Europe in the principal vacation spots and health centers. Finally, a few pages were missing from the manuscript that came to us; we have signaled them in a note.

The reader will find a map of Bulgaria and its neighboring regions and the immediate genealogy of Gabriel Arié at the beginning of the book.