Buy this book on-line Wiernik, Peter : DER VILNER GOEN: R' ELIYAHU BEN SHELOMOH ZALMANNew York; Internat. Lib. Pub. Co., 1906
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) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wiernik, Peter : DER VILNER GOEN: R' ELIYAHU BEN SHELOMOH ZALMAN. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, incunabula, libri antichi, libri rari and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |