Noble Soul: The Life & Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki / / J. Prouser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Prouser, J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Walenty Potocki was a young Polish nobleman who abandoned wealth, power, and unlimited worldly prospects to convert to new religion - Judaism. Potocki was betrayed by a member of the religious community he embraced and burned at the stake by the Church he left behind in 1749. This book examines eleven versions of this remarkable man’s story and the heated, previously unpublished, correspondence between the Potocki clan and one of his early biographers. Noble Soul is the record of one man’s defining faith, and of the compelling human need for personal spiritual fulfillment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Ponary 1749, 1941 -- Chapter 2. To the Manor Born -- Chapter 3. First Response: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, 1841 -- Chapter 4. Early Data and Documents -- Chapter 5. American Tribute: Henry Gersoni, 1873 -- Chapter 6. Jewish Souls: A. Litvin, 1916 -- Chapter 7. Alter Egos: Kacyzne’s ‘Der Dukus,’ 1925 -- Chapter 8. Fantasy In Berlin: Selig Schachnowitz, 1930 -- Chapter 9. Zionist Perspective: Ben-David, 1938 -- Chapter 10. Historical Novelty: Saul Saphire, 1942 -- Chapter 11. A Question Of Parentage: Natan Mark, 1968 -- Chapter 12. Portraits of Piety: Yedael Meltzer, 1996 -- Chapter 13. Pardons And Potentates: Benedict XIV & Augustus III -- Chapter 14. Literary Lens: The Book of Esther -- Chapter 15. Literary Lens: Redeemers And Relics In Christian Europe -- Chapter 16. Conclusions -- Appendix. Conversion To Judaism: The Eighteenth Century & Beyond -- Bibliography