Emanuel Etkes

Emanuel Etkes is a professor emeritus of Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research primarily focuses on the history of the Jewish Enlightenment and the cultural and intellectual history of East European Jewry. Etkes has written extensively on the Vilna Gaon and the Haskalah movement, contributing significantly to the understanding of this period in Jewish history. His scholarly work often explores the interplay between rabbinic traditions and modernity, and he is known for his detailed studies of key Jewish figures and movements that shaped the modern Jewish thought.

Books

U/ The Gaon of VIlna and his cousinhood