Biographical Information

Haym Soloveitchik, Merkin Family Professor of Jewish History and Literature at the Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, received his doctorate from Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he served until 1989 as Professor of Jewish History.  In recent years he has taught at the Ecole des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at the Sorbonne.

In 1987, Professor Soloveitchik inaugurated the Caroline Gruss Chair in Jewish Law at the University of Pensylvania Law School and served in that capacity for three years. He has also taught at the Law School of Tel Aviv University.  His publications include Halakhah, Economics and Communal Self Image: Pawnbroking in the Middle Ages (Hebrew).  His most recent work on the Jewish wine trade and the origins of Jewish money lending in the Middle Ages has just been published in Israel.