The Gaon of Vilna [electronic resource] : 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, c2002.Description: viii, 299 pUniform titles:
  • Yaḥid be-doro. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.8/32/092 B 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.