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The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image

Author: I Etkes; Yaacov Jeffrey Green
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Elijah ben Solomon; Elijah ben Solomon; Eliyahu ben Shelomoh Zalman.
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: I Etkes; Yaacov Jeffrey Green
ISBN: 0520223942 9780520223943
OCLC Number: 48675610
Description: viii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Other Titles: Yaḥid be-doro.
Responsibility: Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green.
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