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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Etkes, I.
- Series:
- S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
- The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
- Standardized Title:
- Yaḥid be-doro. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
- Elijah ben Solomon.
- Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797--Influence.
- Rabbis--Lithuania--Vilnius--Biography.
- Rabbis.
- Hasidism--History--18th century.
- Hasidism.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)--Biography.
- Vilnius (Lithuania).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 299 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 learning and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study, Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character and traces several public images of him as they have developed and spread from the early nineteenth century until the present.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356537
- 9781282356535
- 1282356534
- 9780520925076
- 0520925076
- 9781597346276
- 1597346276
- OCLC:
- 475929699
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