Adam Baruch (; April 9, 1945 – May 24, 2008) was an Israeli journalist, newspaper

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, writer and

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Biography

Baruch Meir Rosenblum (later Adam Baruch) was born in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of

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, Israel. His father, Asher Rosenblum, was a lawyer,

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and active politically in

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. His maternal grandfather was Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Wachtfogel, head of the Mea Shearim

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and

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for the

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communities. He was raised in

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, completed his high school education at the Noam Yeshiva High School in Pardes Hannah and later for a short time in

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, and studied law at the

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. His first wife was the photographer Ariella Shvide, with whom he had two children: Ido Rosenblum, a screenwriter and TV personality, and Amalia Rosenblum, a writer. He lived in

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with his partner, Shira Aviad, mother of his second son, Itay Asher. He died from

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in 2008.

Journalism

Adam Baruch edited the journals "Musag" (1974–1976), "Monitin" (1978–1982) and "Shishi Tarbut" (1995–1996); and the daily newspaper " Globes" (1992–1996). During the 1980s he was the editor of the weekend supplement "Seven Days" of the daily newspaper

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, and was the editor of

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for a short period of time in 1992, when the newspaper was owned by

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. During his last years he wrote a weekly

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called "Shishi" (sixth, or Friday, in

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), in the Maariv weekend supplement "Mussaf HaShabbat". Previous personal columns of his were "Eye Contact" – a weekly art page in Yedioth Ahronoth, and a column in the weekly newspaper "Koteret Rashit". Baruch also created the television interview series "Adam Baruch in Search of an Answer" ("אדם ברוך מחפש תשובה"), broadcast on the

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's Channel one, and the short movie "Eye Witness" ("עד ראייה"), broadcast on the Israeli Channel two.

Published works

* Ma Nisma BaBayit (

for ''How are Things at Home?''), Dvir, 2004 – short essays on impressions of the last 25 years in Israel. * Hayeinu (''Our Life''), Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 2002 – an attempt to define regulations for Jewish life in modern Israel. * Betom Lev (''In Good Faith''), Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 2001 – interpretation and commentary on Jewish culture. * Seider Yom (''Daily Routine''), subtitled "Daily Life in the Mirror of the

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", Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 2000 – Halakhic implementation and interpretation on modern daily life issues, such as money, family,

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, and many others. * After Rabin: New Art from Israel, by Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Yaron Ezrahi, Adam Baruch, Tali Tamir, Jewish Museum Staff; New York, N.Y, Jewish Museum, 1999 – essays in a catalog accompanying a Jewish Museum of New York exhibition by the same name, discussing the effect of the assassination of Prime Minister

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on art in Israel. * Hu Haya Gibor (''He was a Hero''), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1998 – 41 short stories originally published in Baruch's "Eye Contact" column Yedioth Ahronoth, about situations in contemporary Jewish and Israeli life. * Pisul Hiloni (''Secular Sculpturing''), 1988 – about the Sculptor

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. * Lustig, 1985 – an autobiographical story.

References

External links

''Essayist, artist Adam Baruch dies at 63''

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''Critic and journalist Adam Baruch passes away at age 63''

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