Setting a translation exercise for myself

I'm not aware of any other translations of the entire tractate -- the one verse I cited is a very well-known phrase, and it's relatively easy to find people quoting it just by googling on hilelismo -- I'm pretty sure someone on this website has used a variant of it as their signature file. [Heck, there was even a translation of the last portion of the verse on the CD/tape "Bonvenu Paco" -- though in turning it into rhyming Esperanto, you might not recognize it, but in the original Hebrew song of Naomi Shemer, the quote is a deliberate word-for-word allusion.]

Also, as mentioned in one of my other replies, I've seen a book "Juda Sagxo" that has translations of a few scattered verses from the book. When I get a chance, I'll look at these in more detail, but I doubt I would use them.

I also own a number of English translations, from various sources, scads of commentaries spanning the centuries, and I have access to the Hebrew original (heck, it's online!), which I can read haltingly, with the aid of some scholarly aids.

One problem is that the hebrew is really quite terse in Pirkei avot and often lends itself to multiple interesting interpretations, all of which may be valuable. It's almost a mistake to translate it as a single expression, you'd like to capture the multiplicity of meanings.

Beletreco has its place, for sure -- but I really like translations that help me understand what the text plausibly means, or how it was most likely understood at the time it was written. [Have you seen Robert Alter's translations of Torah and psalms? They are an interesting balance between the scholarly and the literary. And there's a really interesting one of Song of Songs by Ariel and Chana Bloch [Shir haShirim is the one book of Tanakh that the religious tradition has the most trouble with, which spills into the English translations you can find from them -- for example, Artscroll's translation in the Stone Tanakh outright refuses to give literal translations and only gives an allegorical one. In synagogues, Shir haShirim is read on the Shabbat of Passover (so we just heard it recently) -- but there are some [by no means universal] traditions of reading it VERY quickly and softly because of its questionable propriety. [the only other text I know that gets read this way is the section of "curses" in Deuteronomy. ]

I do have a copy of The "Antologio de la Hebrea Poezio" around here somewhere -- it has an interesting mixture of stuff [Including excerpts of Ecclesiastes done in rhyming couplets, which makes sense on some level, but definitely distorts the text]. And there actually has been some jewish cultural stuff translated into Esperanto -- ranging from translations of yiddish authors like Sholem Alechem and I.A. Peretz to some holocaust literature.

I also remember an ebook "Juda Sagxo" compiled by a swedish editor
on the old elibrejo site -- ooo, it's still available --
http://i-espero.info/files/elibroj/eo%20-%20feldbaum,%20sigvard%20-%20ju...
to be individual lines from many places, pulled out of context and I think it was translated from a book originally produced in Swedish and my recollection was (A) that the PDF was garbled in a few places, though the copy I just found and linked to seems better (B) that the text had been translated into Esperanto from a Swedish book, not from the original Hebrew and Aramaic -- and indeed, there's no guarantee the Swedish was done directly from Hebrew and Aramaic Even above the wording, there were some odd orthographic changes: for example, the "Baal Shem Tov" is called "Bal Hxem Tov", which is and, for that matter, the "Hxofec Hxaim" is called "Sxofec Sxaim". (C) the text itself was just a random sampling of well-known or interesting lines, all taken without context or commentary.
[Some of them are from Ethics of the Fathers, which in this book are called "Le prapatroj sentencoj" which is actually a fair translation.
But I haven't looked at it in years -- when I first saw it I was just learning Esperanto, so I didn't look at it as completely as I might now. I will give it another go.

You know, even the famous line from Hillel I quoted originally loses something when you include the "nur" -- which is NOT literally in the original, but is usually added in translations [at least both in English and Esperanto]. It may well be a useful clarification and perhaps captures the original meaning, but there are some interesting commentaries on the verse that don't make sense when the "nur" is there.