Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Ha-Gaon He-Hasid: In His Own Time and for Succeeding Generations 10
6. 2. The Vilna Gaon and Haskalah 37
7. 3. The Vilna Gaon and the Beginning of the Struggle against Hasidism 73
8. 4. The Vilna Gaon and the Mitnagdim as Seen by the Hasidim 96
9. 5. Rabbi Ḥayyim of Volozhin’s Response to Hasidism 151
10. 6. Talmudic Scholarship and the Rabbinate in Lithuanian Jewry during the Nineteenth Century 209
11. 7. Torah and Yira in the Thought and Practice of the Vilna Gaon 232
12. Notes 245
13. Glossary 277
14. Bibliography 281
15. Index 295