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

Author/creator Etkes, I.
Other author Green, Yaacov Jeffrey.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (viii, 299 p.)
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Uniform titleYaḥid be-doro. English
SeriesThe S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: The Gaon of Vilna Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520223942 (alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021696492
ISBN9780520925076 ebook

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