Haym Soloveitchik
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Rabbi Dr. Haym Soloveitchik (b. September 19, 1937) is the only son of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. A graduate of the Maimonides School, Soloveitchik received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1958, with a major in History. After two years of post-graduate study at Harvard, he moved to Israel and began his studies toward an M.A. and PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, under the world-famous historian Professor Jacob Katz. His wrote his Master's thesis on the laws the laws of gentile wine in medieval Germany. His doctorate, which he received in 1972, concentrated on laws of pawnbroking and usury. During this period, he also studied at the Yeshivot of Mir and Ponevezh.
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[edit] Teaching
Soloveitchik taught at Hebrew University until 1984, and reached the rank of Full Professor. During that period, he also taught at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University and served as a Rosh Yeshiva at its affiliate the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. In the early 1980's, he left Hebrew University and began teaching at Yeshiva University on a full-time basis, serving as University Professor. He taught there until 2006, when he was appointed University Research Professor.
Known as a very demanding teacher, Soloveitchik has had relatively few personal students. The scholars who have been seen as among his leading students are Rabbi Michael Rosensweig, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University; Edward Fram, who teaches in the History Department at Ben Gurion University; and Jeffrey Woolf, who teaches in the Talmud Department at Bar Ilan University.
[edit] Scholarship
Haym Soloveitchik is acknowledged as a leading contemporary historian of Halakha(See Yisrael Ta Shema in Zion 2002). Soloveitchik has only recently begun to publish at a regular rate.
[edit] Published works
His published works include "Three Themes in Sefer Hassidim,'AJS Review 1 (1976); "Can Halakhic Texts Talk History?". AJS Review 3 (1978), pp. 153-196, and "Principles and Pressures: Jewish Trade in Gentile Wine in the Middle Ages". Am Oved (Tel Aviv, 2003).
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