@book {562, title = {

The Gaon of Vilna: The Man and his Image

}, year = {2002}, abstract = {

"A pathbreaking book in Jewish Studies. Etkes is careful to separate the man himself from the mythic role he later came to occupy in the modern Jewish landscape. This emphasis upon {\textquoteright}image,{\textquoteright} and not only upon the {\textquoteright}man,{\textquoteright} gives the Etkes volume a unique and broad flavor."--David Ellenson, author of\ Between Tradition and Culture

"Etkes probes the image and reception of the Vilna Gaon in the movements he spawned (Haskalah) and opposed (Hasidism) and provides a sophisticated sense of the dynamism and power of historical images in forging battle lines in the highly fractious world of nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish culture."--David N. Myers, author of\ Re-Inventing the Jewish Past

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Gaon-Vilna-Man-His-Image/dp/0520223942}, author = {Immanuel Etkes} }