Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The Gaon of Vilna : the man and his image
Yaḥid be-doro. English
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Jeffrey M. Green
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
-
- viii, 299 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780520223943, 1597346276, 0520223942, 9780585441153, 6612356537, 9780520925076, 0585441154, 9781282356535, 0520925076, 9781597346276, 9786612356537, 1282356534
- OCLC
- ocm48675610, ocn475929699, ocm51821772
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 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