Noble soul : the life and legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki / Joseph H. Prouser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prouser, Joseph H.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Judaism in context ; v. 1.

Judaism in context ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Potocki, Valentine, -1749.

Potocki, Valentine.

Jewish converts from Christianity--Lithuania--Vilnius--Biography.

Jewish converts from Christianity.

Aristocracy (Social class)--Lithuania--Vilnius--Biography.

Aristocracy (Social class).

Potocki, Valentine, -1749--Death and burial.

Jewish martyrs--Lithuania--Vilnius--Biography.

Jewish martyrs.

Potocki, Valentine, -1749--Bibliography.

Vilnius (Lithuania)--Biography.

Vilnius (Lithuania).

Lithuania--Vilnius.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Gorgias Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2005.

Summary:

Walenty Potocki was a young Polish nobleman who abandoned wealth, power, and unlimited worldly prospects to convert to new religion - Judaism. Potocki was betrayed by a member of the religious community he embraced and burned at the stake by the Church he left behind in 1749. This book examines eleven versions of this remarkable man's story and the heated, previously unpublished, correspondence between the Potocki clan and one of his early biographers. Noble Soul is the record of one man's defining faith, and of the compelling human need for personal spiritual fulfillment.

Contents:

Returning to the scene of the crime : Ponary 1749, 1941

To the manor born

First response : Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, 1841

Early data and documents

American tribute : Henry Gersoni, 1873

Jewish souls : A. Litvin, 1916

Alter egos : Kacyzne's "Der Dukus," 1925

Fantasy in Berlin : Selig Schachnowitz, 1930

Zionist perspective : Ben-David, 1938

Historical novelty : Saul Saphire, 1942

A question of parentage : Natan Mark, 1968

Portraits of piety : Yedael Meltzer, 1996

Pardons and potentates : Benedict XIV & Augustus III

Literary lens : the book of Esther

Literary lens : redeemers and relics in Christian Europe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

1593330979

OCLC:

56615927