Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Gaon of Vilna

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1040624

Responsibility statement

Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green

Sub title

the man and his image

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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