Author: Haym Soloveitchik

Written at different times and for different audiences - some for scholars of rabbinic literature, some for laymen or for scholars not necessarily ...

In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history and...

The essays in this volume reflect the authors lifelong interest in the history of halakhah. What stimulated change, and why? What happened when str...

Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of asidei Ashke...

In this second volume of his essays on the history of halakhah, Haym Soloveitchik grapples with much-disputed topics in medieval Jewish history and...

Although Jews were at the centre of commercial activity in medieval Europe, a talmudic ban on any wine touched by a Gentile prevented them from eng...

Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pietist movement of asidei Ashke...