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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

Title
The Gaon of Vilna : 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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Description
viii, 299 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
  • Yaḥid be-doro. English
Alternative Title
Yaḥid be-doro.
Subject
  • Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797
  • Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 > Influence
  • Hasidism > History > 18th century
  • Rabbis > Vilnius > Biography
  • Vilnius (Lithuania) > Biography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0520223942 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2001008254 ^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library