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About the Author
Haym Soloveitchik is the Merkin Family Research Professor at Yeshiva University, New York, and the former director of the School of Jewish Studies at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has also taught at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has published books in Hebrew on pawnbroking and usury, Jewish involvement in the medieval wine trade, and the use of responsa as a historical source. Three volumes of his Collected Essays have been published by the Littman Library.
Reviews
'In our generation the premier practitioner of history of, and through, halacha is Haym Soloveitchik . . . in addition to his many other merits, [he] is an elegant stylist . . . Part of the pleasure of reading him is that there is more learning and illumination to be found in his remarks dropped along the way than in the pages of a lesser scholar . . . profound, poignant essays.'
David Wolpe, Tablet Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9781786941657
Author Haym Soloveitchik
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Liverpool University Press
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Weight(grams) 703g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 41mm