Doctoral diploma from the University of Padua for Israel Baruch Olmo
Description
Until 1800, the University of Padua was the most important center
for Jewish students, whereas the University of Bologna’s
registers list no Jews. Doctoral diplomas served as an entrance
ticket for Jewish doctors into the modern society of nobles and
bourgeois. The University of Padua issued its graduates
hand-written and decorated diplomas in Latin. The initial page of
the diploma for Israel Baruch Olmo shows the emblem of the Olmo
family: an elm, flanked by a bubbling fountain and a stalk of
grain.
