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According to Wikipedia, Haym Soloveitchik 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. After two years of post-graduate study at Harvard, he moved to Israel and began his studies toward an M.A. and PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, under the historian Professor Jacob Katz. He wrote his Master's thesis on the Halakha of gentile wine in medieval Germany. His doctorate, which he received in 1972, concentrated on laws of pawnbroking and usury. He is known to many as Dr. Gra"ch , after his great-grandfather for whom he is named, Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, who was known as the Gra"ch .

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Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy (1999) (152)
Religious Law and Change: The Medieval Ashkenazic Example (1987) (42)
Catastrophe and Halakhic Creativity: Ashkenaz —1096, 1242, 1306 and 1298 (1998) (24)
Three Themes in the Sefer asidim (1976) (18)
Piety, Pietism and German Pietism: Sefer Ḥasidim I and the Influence of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz (2012) (17)
Can Halakhic Texts Talk History? (1978) (16)
Pietists and Kibbitzers (2005) (13)
Pawnbroking: a Study in Ribbit and of the Halakah in Exile (1970) (12)
Collected Essays, Volume I (2013) (8)
Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Medieval Ashkenaz (Part II of II) (2012) (8)
Halakhah, Hermeneutics, and Martyrdom in Medieval Ashkenaz (Part I of II) (2012) (4)
Yishaq (Eric) Zimmer. ′Olam ke-Minhago Noheg . Jerusalem: Mercaz Zalman Shazar, 1996.327 pp. (1998) (3)
History of halakhah — methodological issues: A review essay of I. Twersky'sRabad of Posquières (1991) (3)
RUPTURE AND RECONSTRUCTION (2021) (2)
Three Themes in the Sefer Ḥasidim (1976) (2)
Halakhah, Taboo and the Origin of Jewish Moneylending in Germany (2004) (2)
Topics in the Ḥokhmath Ha-Nefesh (1967) (1)
A Note On the Penetration of Roman Law in Provence (1972) (1)
A Response to Rabbi Ephraim Buckwold's Critique of "Rabad of Posquières: A Programmatic Essay" (2016) (1)
Responsa: Literary History and Basic Literacy (1999) (1)
The jewish attitude in the high and late middle ages (1000-1500) (2005) (1)
Angle of Deflection (2020) (1)
Appendix to "Pietists and Kibbitzers" (2005) (0)
On the Third Yeshivah of Bavel: A Response to Robert Brody (2019) (0)
AJS volume 6 Front matter (1981) (0)
Two Notes on the Commentary on the Torah of R. Yehudah he-Ḥasid (2020) (0)
Collected Essays (1971) (0)
RUP AN RECONSTRUCTION : TH TRSFORMTION OF CONTMPORA ORTHODOXY (0)
The Midrash, Sefer Ḥasidim, and the Changing Face of God (2020) (0)
Sefer Ḥasidim and the Social Sciences (2020) (0)
A Response to R. Buckwold’s Critique of ‘Rabad of Posquières: A Programmatic Essay’, Part II (2020) (0)
On Reading Sefer Ḥasidim (2020) (0)
Piety, Pietism, and German Pietism: Sefer Ḥasidim I and the Influence of Ḥasidei Ashkenaz (2020) (0)
Collected Essays (1970) (0)
Collected Essays: v. 1 (2013) (0)
Printing and the History of Halakhah (2020) (0)
Methodological Issues (2020) (0)
The Literary Remains of the Gedol ha-Mefarshim (2020) (0)
Collected Essays: v. 2 (2014) (0)
On Dating Sefer Ḥasidim (2020) (0)
Ravad of Posquières: A Programmatic Essay (2020) (0)
The Riddle of Me’iri’s Recent Popularity (2020) (0)
Jewish and Roman Law: A Study in Interaction (2020) (0)
Contributors (1967) (0)
Rupture and Reconstruction : The Transformation of Modern Orthodoxy (2022) (0)
Topics in the Ḥokhmat ha-Nefesh (2020) (0)

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