The genius : Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism /

The genius : Elijah of Vilna and the making of modern Judaism /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Stern, Eliyahu, 1976-
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Elijah ben Solomon, -- 1720-1797. Elijah ben Solomon, -- 1720-1797. Rabbis -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography. Judaism -- History. Judaism. Rabbis. Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography. Lithuania -- Vilnius. Electronic books. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169727

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ISBN:	9780300183221 0300183224 9780300179309 0300179308 9781283906555 1283906554
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Elijah ben Solomon, the 'Genius of Vilna', was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experience of Jews in modernity has often been described as a process of Western European secularisation - with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society - the book uses Elijah's story to highlight a different theory of modernisation for European life.
Other form:	Print version: Stern, Eliyahu, 1976- Genius. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2013 9780300179309

Table of Contents:

Elijah and Vilna in historical perspective
Elijah's worldview
Elijah and the Enlightenment
The Gaon versus Hasidism
The biur and the yeshiva
The genius.