Gaon of Vilna The Man and His Image

Name: Gaon of Vilna The Man and His Image
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ISBN: 9780520223943

ISBN-10: 0520223942

ISBN-13: 9780520223943

Edition: 2002

Authors: Immanuel Etkes, Jeffrey Green

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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…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.990

Kevin Murphy has been a journalist for "The Sunday World", the "Evening Herald", and "The Irish Independent".



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Glossary


Index