The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and His Image (S. Mark Taper by Immanuel Etkes,Jeffrey Green

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By Immanuel Etkes,Jeffrey Green

A mythical determine in his personal lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) used to be often called the "Gaon of Vilna." He was once the stated grasp of Talmudic experiences within the bright highbrow heart of Vilna, respected all through japanese Europe for his studying and his skill to traverse very easily likely antagonistic domain names of notion and job. After his dying, the parable that have been woven round him grew to become much more robust and was once expressed in a variety of public photos. The formation of those photos was once encouraged as a lot by means of the wishes and desires of these who clung to and relied on them as by means of the particular determine of the Gaon. during this penetrating learn, Immanuel Etkes sheds mild on features of the Vilna Gaon's "real" personality and strains a number of public photos of him as they've got constructed and unfold from the early 19th century until eventually the present.

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