Nuevo héroe: Wolfson

Habrá que agregar, en la lista de héroes -que por ahora sólo incluye a JHN (a quien quizá beatifiquen en el 2009, por cierto)- a Harry Austryn Wolfson (2.xi.1887 - 20.ix.1974). Fue el primer profesor de Judaic Studies en Harvard (y en América). Esto es lo que viene en Wikipedia. El artículo citado de Twersky es genial. Como geniales, excelentes, son sus anécdotas de biblioteca.

Wolfson was a tireless scholar. About him Twersky (1975) writes, "He was reminiscent of an old-fashioned gaon, transposed into a modern university setting, studying day and night, resisting presumptive attractions and distractions, honors and chores, with a tenacity which sometimes seemed awkward and antisocial." He spent vast amounts of time secluded in the Widener Library pursuing his research. Schwarz (1965) writes that even in his retirement, Wolfson was "still the first person to enter Widener library in the morning and the last to leave it at night."

He was known principally for crossing all artificial boundaries of scholarship: he was known as a "daring" scholar, one who was not afraid to put forward a bold hypothesis with limited evidential support. In his work Wolfson often chose bold conjecture over safe but boring analyses.