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The Gaon of Vilna the man and his image

Etkes, I. (Author). Green, Yaacov Jeffrey. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780520925076 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0520925076 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0585441154 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780585441153 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0520223942
  • ISBN: 9780520223943
  • ISBN: 1282356534
  • ISBN: 9781282356535
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (viii, 299 p.)
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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General Note:
Terms of use -
Multi-user.
Multi-User.
CatMonthString:jun.14
CatMonthString:february.14
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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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Subject: Elijah ben Solomon -- 1720-1797
Elijah ben Solomon -- 1720-1797 -- Influence
Rabbis
Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius
Hasidism -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY / Medieval
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Orthodox
Hasidism
Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography
HISTORY -- Medieval
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
Electronic books
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography
Vilnius (Lithuania)
JSTOR-DDA
Humaniora -- Jødisk kultur og historie.
Elijah ben Solomon, 1720– 1797 -- Influence
Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography
Hasidism -- History -- 18th century
Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography
Elijah ben Solomon, 1720– 1797
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History.
Biography.
Biografieën (vorm)
Electronic books.

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