Adam Baruch


Adam Baruch was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.

Biography

Baruch Meir Rosenblum was born in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel. His father, Asher Rosenblum, was a lawyer, art dealer and active politically in Hapoel HaMizrachi. His mother's father was Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Wachtfogel, head of the Mea Shearim Yeshiva and Av Beit Din for the Ashkenazi communities.
He was raised in Ramat Gan, completed his high school education at the Noam Yeshiva High School in Pardes Hannah and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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 Jaffa with his partner, Shira Aviad, mother of his second son, Itay Asher.
He died from diabetes in 2008.

Journalism

Adam Baruch edited the journals "Musag", "Monitin" and "Shishi Tarbut" ; and the daily newspaper "Globes". During the 1980s he was the editor of the weekend supplement "Seven Days" of the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, and was the editor of Maariv for a short period of time in 1992, when the newspaper was owned by Robert Maxwell. During his last years he wrote a weekly column called "Shishi", 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", broadcast on the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Channel one, and the short movie "Eye Witness", broadcast on the Israeli Channel two.

Published works