Creator Bio
Haym Soloveitchik
b. 1937
Haym Soloveitchik grew up in Boston and attended Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was professor of Jewish history and literature at Yeshiva University. A leading scholar of the history of halakhah, he teaches and writes on Jewish legal history, medieval religious movements, and the contemporary Haredi world.
Content by Haym Soloveitchik
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Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy
[The text of this article is published without its accompanying notes.]If I were asked to characterize in a phrase the change that religious Jewry has undergone in the past generation, I would say…