The Gaon of Vilna

Etkes, I.

The Gaon of Vilna the man and his image / [electronic resource] : Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. - viii, 299 p. - The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies . - S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 --Influence.


Rabbis--Lithuania--Vilnius--Biography.
Hasidism--History--18th century.


Vilnius (Lithuania)--Biography.


Electronic books.

BM755.E6 / E8513 2002eb

296.8/32/092 B