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The genius : Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism /
Elijah ben Solomon, the 'Genius of Vilna', was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Elijah ben Solomon, the 'Genius of Vilna', was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularisation - with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society - the book uses Elijah's story to highlight a different theory of modernisation for European life. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300183221 0300183224 |