Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-294) and index.
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:
The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies
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