Rupture and Reconstruction: The Transformation of Contemporary Orthodoxy

Haym Soloveitchik

1994

[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 that it was the new and controlling role that texts now play in contemporary religious life. And in saying that, I open myself to an obvious question…

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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.

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