A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo
Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the
acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual
center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning
and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of
thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven
around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various
public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much
by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them
as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study,
Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real"
character and traces several public images of him as they have
developed and spread from the early nineteenth century until the
present.
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