The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image /

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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

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Etkes, I.
Other Authors: Green, Yaacov Jeffrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Subjects:
Elijah ben Solomon, > 1720-1797.
Elijah ben Solomon, > 1720-1797 > Influence.
Elijah ben Solomon, > 1720-1797
1700-1799
Rabbis > Lithuania > Vilnius > Biography.
Hasidism > History > 18th century.
Rabbins > Lituanie > Vilnious > Biographies.
Hassidisme > Histoire > 18e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > Orthodox.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Hasidism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Rabbis
Vilnius (Lithuania) > Biography.
Lithuania > Vilnius
Humaniora > Jødisk kultur og historie.
Biography
Biographies
History
Biografieën (vorm)
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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