DER VILNER GOEN: R' ELIYAHU BEN SHELOMOH ZALMAN
New York; Internat. Lib. Pub. Co., 1906. Item #31721
Original Wraps. 12mo. 38, [4] pages. 18 cm. First edition. In Yiddish. English title: “The Gaon of Wilna; Biography by P. Wiernik. ” A biography of Elijah Ben Solomon (also called Elijah Wilna, Elijah Gaon, and Der Wilner Gaon) the famous Lithuanian Talmudist, cabalist, grammarian, and mathematician; born at Wilna April 23, 1720; died there Oct. 9, 1797. Written by the American Yiddish Journalist Peter Wiernik, "editor for New York's most important Yiddish daily, the Jewish Morning Journal. His editorials, possessed of intelligence, good taste and tolerance, advocated a fusion of modern Orthodoxy and Americanism, and evinced a coolness to political Zionism and hostility to socialism. " (Joseph Hirsch, EJ) Subjects: Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Wilna, 1720-1798. OCLC lists 8 copies. Light soiling to cover, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good + condition. (YID-18-13).
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