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Author Etkes, I

Title The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 299 pages)
Series The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Contents Ha-Gaon He-Hasid : in his own time and for succeeding generations -- The Vilna Gaon and Haskalah -- The Vilna Gaon and the beginning of the struggle against Hasidism -- The Vilna Gaon and the Mitnagdim as seen by the Hasidim -- Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin's response to Hasidism -- Talmudic scholarship and the rabbinate in Lithuanian Jewry during the nineteenth century -- Torah and yira in the thought and practice of the Vilna Gaon
Summary A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his
Analysis Humaniora Jødisk kultur og historie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
Notes Translated from the Hebrew
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Subject Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 -- Influence
SUBJECT Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 fast
Subject Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography
Hasidism -- History -- 18th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Orthodox.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Hasidism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Rabbis
SUBJECT Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography
Subject Lithuania -- Vilnius
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biografieën (vorm)
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Green, Yaacov Jeffrey
ISBN 9780520925076
0520925076
0585441154
9780585441153
1597346276
9781597346276
9786612356537
6612356537
Other Titles Yaḥid be-doro. English