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Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna
Abraham ben Elijah of Vilna was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Lithuania. There is some debate as to when he was born. Some place his birth as early as 1749, but more recent scholarship suggests he was actually born in 1766. He was born in Vilna and died there on December 14, 1808. He was the son of Elijah, the Vilna Gaon, the most famous Talmudist of modern times. He was educated under the supervision of his father, who was famous both for his opposition to both the Hasidic movement, and the dry scholasticism which dominated the rabbinic leadership of Poland at that time. According to the custom of the time, he married at the age of twelve, but continued his studies in the Talmudic colleges in other cities, and after a few years returned home, where he completed his studies under his father. Like his father, he never officiated as rabbi, but was a highly respected member of the Jewish community of Vilna, in which he held various offices.
==Works==
It was due to his father's influence that he developed a literary activity of a far more scientific character than was usually found at that age or in that country. Especially interested in the history of the old homiletical literature, he edited the ''Midrash Agadat Bereshit'' with a number of other mostly pseudepigraphic works of similar character (Vilna, 1802), adding valuable notes. In the preface of this edition he makes the first known attempt to give a complete history of the midrashic literature. A plagiarist, Jacob ben Naphtali Herz of Brody, reprinted this edition with the preface (Zolkiev, 1804), but was careful to omit the name of Elijah Gaon wherever the son had mentioned him. He omitted, also, on the title-page the mention of Abraham of Vilna's edition, referring only to the one which had been printed in Venice in 1618.
This introduction was only part of his greater work, ''Rav Po'alim'' (Of Many Works, published by Simon Chones, Warsaw, 1894). This book is an alphabetical index of all ''midrashim'' known to the author. It seems that Abraham of Vilna believed literally in the statement that the eighty concubines of King Solomon (''Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah'' 6:8) meant eighty ''midrashim.'' This is at least testified to by Samuel Luria in a letter to Simon Chones (''Rab Po'alim,'' p. 9). The book, however, contains over one hundred and twenty midrashic works. While Abraham of Vilna shows greater interest in literature and literary questions than is found among his contemporaries, he has no idea of the meaning of literary criticism. He ascribes the ''Zohar'' to Shimon bar Yochai, in spite of the many proofs against its authenticity produced by various writers since the time of Abraham Zacuto. He makes, however, the admission that the book was preserved for several generations by oral tradition. So he considered the ''Pirke R. Eliezer'' (a Midrash written about the middle of the ninth century) to be written by R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus about 100 CE. The book is a very valuable one (even after Leopold Zunz has treated the same subject in his methodical manner), because the author has collected many valuable references from rabbinical literature.
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