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

By: Etkes, I.
Contributor(s): Green, Yaacov Jeffrey | ebrary, Inc.
Series: S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies: Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002Description: viii, 299 p. ; 24 cm.Uniform titles: Yaḥid be-doro. English Subject(s): Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 | Elijah ben Solomon, 1720-1797 -- Influence | Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography | Hasidism -- History -- 18th century | Vilnius (Lithuania) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 296.8/32/092 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.