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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image /

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Etkes, I.
Otros Autores: Green, Yaacov Jeffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Colección:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.