Open Request Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav's Tales: A Critical Translation from the Yiddish with Annotations and Commentary by Martin Irving Mantel, PhD dissertation

[Jsinclair]

I am having the devil's own time locating this thing. There is a link on Wikisource but it leads to a Scribd "File Removed" notice. There is hella metadata available on Anna's but not one actual link. I've tried every trick I know with AI, but all I get is some service or other through Princeton - or an interlibrary resource system that I can't access and AI stubbornly refuses to be a co-conspirator in temporarily hijacking. Bloody tech knows there's a PDF. Knows where it is. Will even give me a paltry 10% of a chapter or so. But neither flattery, flirting, or taunting its "tiny tech" prowess will convince any AI to get me to the freaking thing. Not even to the bibliography therein. It looks like it was going to be published, but wasn't. And Princeton University is holding onto it like it was the One Commentary to Unite them All, or some such balderdash.

Please assist. This is driving me nucking futs. Thank you.

 

[Morell]

One search using real inteligence and I've found the text as well as PDF available through the same web find on Google. (only without annotations and commentary, I guess)
Maybe it is time for you to upgrade from artificial fake inteligence to human inteligence.

 

[Jsinclair]

One search using real inteligence and I've found the text as well as PDF available through the same web find on Google. (only without annotations and commentary, I guess)
Maybe it is time for you to upgrade from artificial fake inteligence to human inteligence.

Take another look. Find many more. With commentaries. Extensive commentaries. In Hebrew, in English, footnoted, annotated, cross-referenced, and baked into a nice warm Chassidic pie. But definitely NOT the SPECIFIC one referenced. That IS annotated. With commentary. By Martin Irving Mantel. PhD. As it says in big bold letters. Right there on the top of the post.

Thanks for the effort, though. And for being (almost) thoughtful. As well as for the absolutely scintillating example of this human intelligence you speak of.