The invention of a tradition : the Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna / Immanuel Etkes ; translated by Saadya Sternberg ; with a foreword by David Biale.

"The Gaon of Vilna was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth century Europe; his legacy is claimed by religious Jews, both Zionist and not. In the mid-twentieth century, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several books advancing the myth that the Gaon was an early progeni...

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Uniform Title:Tsiyonut ha-meshiḥit shel ha-Gaʼon mi-Ṿilnah. English
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Main Author: Etkes, I. (Author)
Other Authors: Sternberg, Saadya
Biale, David, 1949- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Hebrew
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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Physical Description:ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a "Hazon Zion" : a Messianic-Zionist movement -- The main ideas of Kol ha-tor -- Does Kol ha-tor express a Messianic-Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon? -- Why did the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna immigrate to the Land of Israel? -- How did the Rivlinian myth take form? -- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher's The great era -- The academic version of the Rivlinian myth -- Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin? -- Mossad ha-yesod : the Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism -- Midrash Shlomo, and The Department for Training Young Orators -- Ha-Maggid doresh Zion : Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a 'Zionist' leader -- Sefer ha-pizmonim : Yosef Yosha Rivlin as 'Messianic-Zionist visionary' -- Who was the author of Kol ha-tor? -- Shlomo Zalman Rivlin : the man and his literary motives -- The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-tor in religious-Zionist circles. 
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