The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image
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Main Author: Etkes, I. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2002
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 299 pages)
ISBN:0520223942
0520925076
0585441154
1282356534
9780520223943
9780520925076
9780585441153
9781282356535

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