Noble Soul: The Life & Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki / / J. Prouser.
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 elev...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Judaism in Context
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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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