Title The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 299 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
	S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
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.
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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Subject	Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
	Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797.
	Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 -- Influence.
	Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
	Rabbis.
	Lithuania -- Vilnius.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	Hasidism -- History -- 18th century.
	Hasidism.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography.
	Vilnius (Lithuania)
Chronological Term	1700 - 1799
Indexed Term	Humaniora Jødisk kultur og historie.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Biografieën (vorm)
	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
Added Author	Green, Yaacov Jeffrey.
Added Title	Yaḥid be-doro. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001053128
Other Form:	Print version: Etkes, I. Yaḥid be-doro. English. Gaon of Vilna. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520223942 (DLC) 2001008254 (OCoLC)48675610
ISBN	9780520925076 (electronic book)
	0520925076 (electronic book)
	0585441154 (electronic book)
	9780585441153 (electronic book)
	0520223942
	9780520223943
	1282356534
	9781282356535
	1597346276
	9781597346276

Title The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

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