LEADER 04343oam 22010934a 450 001 9910828679703321 005 20240410064428.0 010 $a9786612356537 010 $a1-282-35653-4 010 $a0-520-92507-6 010 $a1-59734-627-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520925076 035 $a(CKB)111056485640960 035 $a(EBL)224051 035 $a(OCoLC)475929699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000160712 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000160712 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10190490 035 $a(PQKB)11077423 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056135 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224051 035 $a(OCoLC)51821772 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30315 035 $a(DE-B1597)519620 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520925076 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224051 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10053513 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235653 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485640960 100 $a20011227h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---|||u| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Gaon of Vilna $ethe man and his image /$fImmanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) 225 1 $aThe S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22394-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index. 327 $aHa-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. 330 $aA legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study, Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character and traces several public images of him as they have developed and spread from the early nineteenth century until the present. 410 0$aS. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies. 606 $aRabbis$zLithuania$zVilnius$vBiography 606 $aHasidism$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aVilnius (Lithuania)$vBiography 610 $aauthority. 610 $abiography. 610 $adisciples. 610 $adivine. 610 $aeastern europe. 610 $aeliahu ben shlomo zalman. 610 $aetkes. 610 $again of vilna. 610 $ajewish authors. 610 $ajewish leaders. 610 $ajewish life. 610 $ajewish. 610 $ajewry. 610 $ajudaica. 610 $ajudaism. 610 $akahal. 610 $amedieval. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $arabbi scholar. 610 $arabbi. 610 $arabbinic studies. 610 $areligion. 610 $areligious belief. 610 $areligious history. 610 $areligious leaders. 610 $areligious men. 610 $atalmud. 610 $atalmudic studies. 610 $atorah. 610 $avilna. 615 0$aRabbis 615 0$aHasidism$xHistory 676 $a296.8/32/092 676 $aB 700 $aEtkes$b I$0936103 701 $aGreen$b Yaacov Jeffrey$01131538 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828679703321 996 $aThe Gaon of Vilna$94120602 997 $aUNINA