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With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt the need constantly to define and articulate the nature of group identity, cultural loyalty, memory, and social cohesiveness, and the period of "modernizing" absolutism, which began in 1780, brought changes of enormous significance. From that time forward, new relationships with Gentile society and with the culture of the state blurred the traditional outlines of community and individual identity. Kieval navigates skillfully among histories and myths as well as demography, biography, culture, and politics, illuminating the maze of allegiances and alliances that have molded the Jewish experience during these 200 years.

Jews --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Intellectual life --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Czech Republic --- Česká republika --- ČR --- Tschechische Republik --- Česko --- Czechia --- チェコ --- Cheko --- チェコ共和国 --- Cheko Kyōwakoku --- Tschechien --- Tschechenland --- Tschechei --- République tchèque --- República Checa --- Chequia --- Txèquia‏ --- Txeca --- República Txeca --- Češka --- Czech Socialist Republic (Czechoslovakia) --- Czechoslovakia --- Ethnic relations. --- acculturation. --- antisemitism. --- ashkenazim. --- assimilation. --- belonging. --- bohemia. --- bohemian jewish. --- bohemian jewry. --- bohmen. --- bohmischen. --- central europe. --- community. --- culture. --- czech republic. --- czech. --- folk tale. --- folklore. --- gentiles. --- group identity. --- history. --- jan hus. --- jewish experience. --- jewish life. --- jewish. --- jews. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- kahal. --- language. --- linguistics. --- masaryk. --- memory. --- migration. --- moravia. --- myth. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- place. --- prague. --- religion. --- religious pluralism. --- ritual murder. --- ritual. --- tradition. --- yiddish.

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A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with ease seemingly opposed domains of thought and activity. After his death, the myth that had been woven around him became even more powerful and was expressed in various public images. The formation of these images was influenced as much by the needs and wishes of those who clung to and depended on them as by the actual figure of the Gaon. In this penetrating study, Immanuel Etkes sheds light on aspects of the Vilna Gaon's "real" character and traces several public images of him as they have developed and spread from the early nineteenth century until the present.

Hasidism --- Rabbis --- Chasidism --- Hassidism --- Jewish sects --- Jewish rabbis --- Clergy --- Jewish scholars --- Judaism --- History --- Functionaries --- Elijah ben Solomon, --- Gra, --- Ha-Gra, --- Vilniaus Gaonas, --- Kremeris, Elijas Zalmanas, --- Elijah, --- Gera, --- ha-Gera, --- Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, --- Eliyahu, --- Elijah Gaon, --- Vilna Gaon, --- Gaon, Elijah, --- Wilner Gaon, --- Gaon of Vilna, --- Solomon, Elijah ben, --- Solomon Zalman, Elijah ben, --- Eliyahu ben Shelomoh, --- Shelomoh, Eliyahu ben, --- Eliyahu ben Shelomoh Zalman, --- Shelomoh Zalman, Eliyahu ben, --- Vilna, Gaon of, --- Wilna, Elijah of, --- Vilna, Elijah ben Solomon, --- Ṿilna, Eliyahu mi-, --- Kramer, Eliyahu, --- Eliohu, --- Wilner Goen, --- Gaʼon, --- אילהו בן שלמה, --- אךיהו גאון וחסיד מווילנא --- אלוהו בן שלמה, --- אליה בן שלמה --- אליה בן שלמה, --- אליהו בן סולומון --- אליהו בן סולומון, --- אליהו בן סלומון, --- אליהו בן שלומה, --- אליהו בן שלומו --- אליהו בן שלמה --- אליהו בן שלמה זלמן --- אליהו בן שלמה זלמן, --- אליהו בן שלמה, הגאון מווילנא, --- אליהו בן שלמה, --- אליהו בר שלמה --- אליהו חסידא מווילמא --- אליהו מווילנא --- אליהו מווילנא, --- אליהו מווילנה --- אליהו מוילנא --- אליהו מוילנה --- אליהוה בן שלמה, --- אליהו, --- אליוה, --- אלי׳ מווילנא, --- אלי׳, --- ברי״ף, שמואל, --- גאון מוילנה --- גאון, --- גרא, --- Influence. --- Vilnius (Lithuania) --- Wilno (Lithuania) --- Vilʹna (Lithuania) --- Vilʹnia (Lithuania) --- Вільня (Lithuania) --- Vilnius, Lithuanian S.S.R. --- Ṿilnah (Lithuania) --- Ṿilne (Lithuania) --- Vilʹno (Lithuania) --- Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė --- Vilnius City Municipality --- Vilna (Poland) --- authority. --- biography. --- disciples. --- divine. --- eastern europe. --- eliahu ben shlomo zalman. --- etkes. --- gain of vilna. --- jewish authors. --- jewish leaders. --- jewish life. --- jewish. --- jewry. --- judaica. --- judaism. --- kahal. --- medieval. --- nonfiction. --- rabbi scholar. --- rabbi. --- rabbinic studies. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- religious history. --- religious leaders. --- religious men. --- talmud. --- talmudic studies. --- torah. --- vilna.