The Scholar Archives

Lamberto Borghi was born in January 1907 in Livorno, near Cento, Italy, where his grandfather was a rabbi. He graduated in 1929 from the...

Special thanks to Gretchen Lieb at Vassar College Libraries for her help in tracking down sources! Lydia St. Clair was born on December...

In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, we're posting an extra profile of a Jewish scholar who fled Nazi Germany in the late 1930s....

Special thanks to Professor Renato Foschi at the Sapienza University of Rome for providing a photo of Dr. Calabresi! Renata Calabresi was...

Otakar Odložilík was born on January 12th, 1899, in a Moravian village in the former Repbulic of Czechoslovakia. He was a historian of...

In honor of this scholar's birthday, we thought that he should be the first featured scholar on our blog. Born on March 8th 1884, in...