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Author : Elijah ben Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780944070963
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Vilna Gaon Views Life : Even Sheleimah written by Elijah ben Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elijah ben Solomon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vilna Gaon Views of Life written by Elijah ben Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliyahu Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179308
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Genius written by Eliyahu Stern and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 secularization—with Jews becoming citizens of Western nation-states, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of society—Stern uses Elijah’s story to highlight a different theory of modernization for European life. Religious movements such as Hasidism and anti-secular institutions such as the yeshiva emerged from the same democratization of knowledge and privatization of religion that gave rise to secular and universal movements and institutions. Claimed by traditionalists, enlighteners, Zionists, and the Orthodox, Elijah’s genius and its afterlife capture an all-embracing interpretation of the modern Jewish experience. Through the story of the “Vilna Gaon,” Stern presents a new model for understanding modern Jewish history and more generally the place of traditionalism and religious radicalism in modern Western life and thought.
Author : Betzalel Landau
Publisher : Mesorah Publications, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780899064413
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)
Download or read book The Vilna Gaon written by Betzalel Landau and published by Mesorah Publications, Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring life-story of the Vilna Gaon. Adapted by Yonason Rosenblum from Betzalel Landau's Hebrew, HaGaon HaChassid MiVilna.
Author : I. Etkes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520223942
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Gaon of Vilna written by I. Etkes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a full-length study in English of a tremendously influential teacher, his times, and his legacy, The Gaon of Vilna will be welcomed by all students of Eastern European Jewish history; of Orthodoxy, Hasidism, and rabbinic scholarship; and of comparative religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David E. Fishman
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1512601268
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Book Smugglers written by David E. Fishman and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
Author : Chaim Freedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eliyahu's Branches written by Chaim Freedman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After decades of research, a noted Israeli genealogist has produced a book about the Vilna Gaon that contains a rare portrait of the illustrious 18th-century Eastern European sage, a discussion of his substantial influence on the Jewish world and a thoroughly-documented family tree listing more than 20,000 descendants of the rabbi and his siblings ... Besides exploring the life and times of the Vilna Gaon, the 704-page book identifies, provides documentation for more than 20,000 descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his siblings. There is an index listing all persons in the book. The Gaon's descendants seem as diverse as the Jewish people itself, Freedman said. Some descendants were prominent rabbis and academicians. Some were involved in a rare agricultural settlement experiment in Russia, while others variously served in the American Civil War and emigrated to places like England and Australia well before the mass migrations of the 1880s.
Author : Joel David Bakst
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781490518381
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna: The Josephic Messiah, Leviathan, Metatron and the Sacred Serpent written by Joel David Bakst and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, Volume II of The Secret Doctrine of the Gaon of Vilna, introduces the reader to the virtually unknown Kabbalah School of the Gaon of Vilna. This cosmology incorporates an ancient prophesy mandating a messianic interface between Kabbalah and science. The reader is taken on an exploration of the most challenging "secrets of secrets" to be found from among the entire corpus of the kabbalistic teachings of the Jewish sages: the secret mission of Mashiach ben Yoseph (the Josephic Messiah) and the Twin Messiahs, the cosmic drama of the Sacred Serpent and its role in accelerating technology, the Feast of Leviathan and its higher dimensional "flesh", and Metatron - Prince of the Presence - the ultimate key to unlocking the Gaon's Kabbalah system, specifically the doctrine of Kol HaTor, and for that matter, the entire Torah and the cosmos.
Author : Yaacov Dovid Shulman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560622789
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The Vilna Gaon written by Yaacov Dovid Shulman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ḥayyim ben Isaac Volozhiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nefesh Hachaim written by Ḥayyim ben Isaac Volozhiner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Karpinowitz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653522
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Vilna My Vilna written by Abraham Karpinowitz and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Karpinowitz (1913–2004) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania), the city that serves as both the backdrop and the central character for his stories. He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and, after two years in an internment camp on the island of Cyprus, moved to Israel, where he lived until his death. In this collection, Karpinowitz portrays, with compassion and intimacy, the dreams and struggles of the poor and disenfranchised Jews of his native city before the Holocaust. His stories provide an affectionate and vivid portrait of poor working women and men, like fishwives, cobblers, and barbers, and people who made their living outside the law, like thieves and prostitutes. This collection also includes two stories that function as intimate memoirs of Karpinowitz’s childhood growing up in his father’s Vilna Yiddish theater. Karpinowitz wrote his stories and memoirs in Yiddish, preserving the particular language of Vilna’s lower classes. In this graceful translation, Mintz deftly preserves this colorful, often idiomatic Yiddish, capturing Karpinowitz’s unique voice and rendering a long-vanished world for English-language readers.
Author : David E. Fishman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822973790
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture written by David E. Fishman and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-11-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture explores the transformation of Yiddish from a low-status vernacular to the medium of a complex modern culture. David Fishman examines the efforts of East European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival in the diaspora. Fishman considers the roots of modern Yiddish culture in social and political conditions in Imperial Tsarist and inter-war Poland, and its relationship to Zionism and Bundism. In so doing, Fishman argues that Yiddish culture enveloped all socioeconomic classes, not just the proletarian base, and considers the emergence, at the turn of the century, of a pro-Yiddish intelligentsia and a Yiddishist movement.As Fishman points out, the rise of Yiddishism was not without controversy. Some believed that the rise of Yiddish represented a shift away from a religious-dominated culture to a completely secular, European one; a Jewish nation held together by language, rather than by land or religious content. Others hoped that Yiddish culture would inherit the moral and national values of the Jewish religious tradition, and that to achieve this result, the Bible and Midrash would need to exist in modern Yiddish translation. Modern Yiddish culture developed in the midst of these opposing concepts.Fishman follows the rise of the culture to its apex, the founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO) in Vilna in 1925, and concludes with the dramatic story of the individual efforts that preserved the books and papers of YIVO during the destruction and annihilation of World War II and in postwar Soviet Lithuania. The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture, like those efforts, preserves the cultural heritage of east European Jews with thorough research and fresh insights.
Author : Joseph Dov Soloveitchik
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781602800045
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)
Download or read book Abraham's Journey written by Joseph Dov Soloveitchik and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliyahu Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235585
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Jewish Materialism written by Eliyahu Stern and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generation To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revolutionary backdrop of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, Stern unearths the path that led a group of rabbis, scientists, communal leaders, and political upstarts to reconstruct the core tenets of Judaism and join the vanguard of twentieth-century revolutionary politics. In the face of dire poverty and rampant anti-Semitism, they mobilized Judaism for projects directed at ensuring the fair and equal distribution of resources in society. Their program drew as much from the universalism of Karl Marx and Charles Darwin as from the messianism and utopianism of biblical and Kabbalistic works. Once described as a religion consisting of rituals, reason, and rabbinics, Judaism was now also rooted in land, labor, and bodies. Exhaustively researched, this original, revisionist account challenges our standard narratives of nationalism, secularization, and de-Judaization.
Author : Miriam Adahan
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780873065184
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)
Download or read book Living with Difficult People--including Yourself written by Miriam Adahan and published by Feldheim Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to overcome emotional illness, especially the tendency to be overly critical of others and oneself, and grow spiritually.
Author : Yehudah Mirsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164246
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Rav Kook written by Yehudah Mirsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV The life and thought of a forceful figure in Israel’s religious and political life /div
Author : Avinoam Fraenkel
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9655243621
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Nefesh HaTzimtzum, Volume 1 written by Avinoam Fraenkel and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nefesh HaTzimtzum provides the single most comprehensive and accessible presentation of the teachings and worldview of the Vilna Gaon's primary student, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin. It is focused on Rabbi Chaim's magnum opus, Nefesh HaChaim, a work that has lain in almost total obscurity for nearly two centuries due to its deep Kabbalistic subject matter. Nefesh HaTzimtzum opens up the real depth of the ideas presented in Nefesh HaChaim together with all of Rabbi Chaim's related writings, making them accessible to the public for the first time in any language. In addition to the complete English translation of Nefesh HaChaim, Nefesh HaTzimtzum includes the full Hebrew text of Nefesh HaChaim and many other writings by Rabbi Chaim (with correspondingly hyperlinked English and Hebrew texts), along with in-depth explanations, an informative historical overview, an easily consumable innovative presentation layout and a full index. After centuries of confusion, extensive clarification is provided of the central Kabbalistic concept of Tzimtzum, or the secret of how an infinite God occupies a finite world. Most importantly, it unequivocally demonstrates that the key Kabbalists, including the Vilna Gaon, Rabbi Chaim Volozhin and the Baal HaTanya, all unanimously agreed on the underlying principles of the concept of Tzimtzum and that contrary to widespread historical misunderstanding, there was no fundamental dispute about the philosophical principles of Judaism between the Hasidim and the Mitnagdim. Based on this Nefesh HaTzimtzum shows that both Nefesh HaChaim and Sefer HaTanya present the same methodology for serving God which is rooted in their identical understanding of the concept of Tzimtzum. Nefesh HaTzimtzum is published in two volumes which are sold separately. This volume contains the complete Hebrew text of Nefesh HaChaim which is brought to life by an illuminating translation and incisive commentary. It additionally provides extensive translated source material necessary to properly understand the basic text. The text is further complemented by an informative introduction which includes a historical overview.
