Genius and Demographics in Modern Jewish History

Elijah ben Solomon (1720-1797) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) are often represented as two poles of eighteenth-century Jewish history: "the Gaon" (Elijah of Vilna) as the defender of rabbinic or "traditional" Judaism, and the "Jewish Socrates" (Mendelssohn), as the f...

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Main Author: Stern, Eliyahu (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2011
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2011, Volume: 101, Issue: 3, Pages: 347-382
Further subjects:B Vilna
B Berlin
B Bible
B Geonim
B Elijah
B Aderet Eliyahu
B Secular
B eighteenth-century
B Modernity
B Traditional
B Biur
B Moses Mendelssohn
B Genius
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