Haym Soloveitchik, Date of Birth

Haym Soloveitchik

American rabbi

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1937

Profession: rabbi, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Haym Soloveitchik (born September 19, 1937) 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.