The Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture
Spring 2003: Haym Soloveitchik

The Spring 2003 Annual Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Lecture was presented by Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Merkin Family Chair in Jewish History and Literature at
Yeshiva University. The Lecture was entitled "Thou Should Not Put a Stumbling Block Before the Blind (Lev. XIX:14): The Facilitator in Jewish Law".  Following the lecture there was a short cocktail reception.

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Dr. Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Talmudic Civil Law, NYU School of Law	Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Merkin Family Chair in Jewish History and Literature at Yeshiva University	Dr. Haym Soloveitchik, Merkin Family Chair in Jewish History and Literature at Yeshiva University
Mr. Jason Cury, President of the Gruss Life Monument Fund	Dr. Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor of Talmudic Civil Law, NYU School of Law Dr. Sylvain Cappell, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

Haym Soloveitchik 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.