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Haym Soloveitchik (born September 19, 1937) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi and historian. He is the only son of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He graduated from the Maimonides School which his father founded in Brookline, Massachusetts and then received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1958 with a major in History.
Haym Soloveitchik, a Jewish historian and thinker, explores the changes in religious life and practice among Orthodox Jews in the past generation. He argues that texts have become the dominant mode of expression and regulation, replacing the mimetic tradition and the Halakhah.
Professor ofJewsih History and Literature, Yeshiva University - Cited by 1,215 - Jewish History - Rabbinics - Talmud - Jewish law
8. Feb. 2022 · Listen to a conversation with Professor Soloveitchik, a world-renowned scholar of halacha, about the transformation of contemporary Orthodoxy after the Holocaust. Learn how halacha shifted from a mimetic to a text based tradition and how it affects Jewish life today.
19. Nov. 2019 · In 1994, Professor Haym Soloveitchik wrote one of the most impactful essays on contemporary Jewish life, entitled, “Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy.”
Soloveitchik argues that the initial rupture and reconstruction in east European Jewish society was a product of the secularization process, which he attempts to illustrate by contrasting two classic nineteenth-century publications, the Arukh Ha-Shulhan, by Rabbi
Haym Soloveitchik is the Merkin Family Research Professor of Jewish History and Literature at Yeshiva University.
