The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism,Used
The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism,Used

The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism,Used

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Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna, was perhaps the bestknown 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 secularizationwith Jews becoming citizens of Western nationstates, congregants of reformed synagogues, and assimilated members of societyStern uses Elijahs story to highlight a different theory of modernization for European life. Religious movements such as Hasidism and antisecular 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, Elijahs genius and its afterlife capture an allembracing 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.

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