Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis

Jonathan Petropoulos, a scholar-sleuth noted for helping to return art looted by the Nazis to its proper owners, has resigned his post as director of Claremont McKenna College's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights -- the upshot, as he tells it, of tumbling innocently into art-world intrigue during a quest to recover a multimillion-dollar painting by the French Impressionist Camille Pissarro.

By Mike Boehm

April 15, 2008