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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925076
  • 0520925076
  • 0585441154
  • 9780585441153
  • 1597346276
  • 9781597346276
  • 9786612356537
  • 6612356537
Uniform titles:
  • Yaḥid be-doro. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gaon of Vilna.DDC classification:
  • 296.8/32/092 21
LOC classification:
  • BM755.E6 E8513 2002eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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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.

Translated from the Hebrew.

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