Noble Soul: The Life & Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki

J. Prouser

Published by Gorgias Press 2005

Noble Soul: The Life & Legend of the Vilna Ger Tzedek Count Walenty Potocki

J. Prouser

In the series Judaism in Context

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463210021

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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 This book examines eleven versions of this remarkable man’s story and the heated, previously unpublished, correspondence between the Potocki clan and one of his early biographers.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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Chapter 1. Returning to the Scene of the Crime: Ponary 1749, 1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2. To the Manor Born Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Chapter 3. First Response: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, 1841 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 4. Early Data and Documents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 5. American Tribute: Henry Gersoni, 1873 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Chapter 6. Jewish Souls: A. Litvin, 1916 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 7. Alter Egos: Kacyzne’s ‘Der Dukus,’ 1925 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 8. Fantasy In Berlin: Selig Schachnowitz, 1930 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 9. Zionist Perspective: Ben-David, 1938 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 10. Historical Novelty: Saul Saphire, 1942 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 11. A Question Of Parentage: Natan Mark, 1968 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 12. Portraits of Piety: Yedael Meltzer, 1996 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Chapter 13. Pardons And Potentates: Benedict XIV & Augustus III Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 14. Literary Lens: The Book of Esther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 15. Literary Lens: Redeemers And Relics In Christian Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Chapter 16. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Appendix. Conversion To Judaism: The Eighteenth Century & Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
- Main content: 244

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Published: January 1, 2005
ISBN: 9781463210021