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The Gaon of Vilna the man and his image

Title
The Gaon of Vilna [electronic resource] : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.
Author
Etkes, I.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
Green, Yaacov Jeffrey.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 299 p.)
Series Statement
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Uniform Title
Yaḥid be-doro. English (Online)
Alternative Title
Yaḥid be-doro.
Subject
  • Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797
  • Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 > Influence
  • Rabbis > Lithuania > Vilnius > Biography
  • Hasidism > History > 18th century
  • Vilnius (Lithuania) > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2001008254
OCLC
ssj0000160712
Author
Etkes, I.
Title
The Gaon of Vilna [electronic resource] : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Series
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Green, Yaacov Jeffrey.
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