The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna by Immanuel Etkes

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

The Invention of a Tradition: The Messianic Zionism of the Gaon of Vilna

Immanuel Etkes

234 pages hardcover 2023

2 editions

nonfiction history religion medium-paced
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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, Shlomo Zalman Rivlin wrote several books advanci...

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