Elie Borowski

Elie Borowski (d. 2013) was a noted collector of Near Eastern antiquities and the founder of the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. in 1946 from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and won a Lady Davis Fellowship in research at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. In the mid-1950s, Borowski worked as a consultant to European art dealers; he then began to acquire his own collection and to organize exhibits from various public and private collections—including the 1981 “Ladders to Heaven” exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, which displayed objects relating to the Bible and its background.