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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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tsiyonut ha-meshiḥit shel ha-Gaʼon mi-Ṿilnah. English
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.
Subjects:
Elijah ben Solomon, > 1720-1797.
Elijah ben Solomon, > 1720-1797 > Disciples.
Rivlin, Shelomo Zalman, > 1884-1962.
Jewish messianic movements > History.
Zionism and Judaism > History.
Zionism > Israel > History.
Messianisme juif > Histoire.
Disciples.
Jewish messianic movements.
Zionism.
Zionism and Judaism.
Israel.
Messiah > Judaism > History of doctrines.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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