| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
Elijah and Vilna in historical perspective -- Elijah's worldview -- Elijah and the Enlightenment -- The Gaon versus Hasidism -- The biur and the yeshiva -- The genius |
| Summary |
Elijah ben Solomon, the 'Genius of Vilna', was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularisation - with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society - the book uses Elijah's story to highlight a different theory of modernisation for European life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
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Judaism -- History.
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Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
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Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0300183224 (electronic bk.) |
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9780300183221 (electronic bk.) |
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