Isidore Israel Goldblum was born to a Jewish family in the town of Neishtot Shaki, where he received a traditional religious education.

[1] He devoted himself to the study and publication of Hebrew manuscripts in Berlin, Paris, London, Oxford, and Rome, publishing his research mainly in the periodical Ha-Maggid.

In 1891 he wrote Vie et Œuvres de rabbi Elia Bahur le Grammairien, a short biography of Elye Bokher.

[2] That same year he published Ma'amar Bikkoret Sefarim, and released his Mi-Ginzei Yisrael be-Paris in 1894.

He corresponded with the leading Jewish scholars of his time and published a collection of these letters (Kevutzat Mikhtavim, 1895).