Adam Baruch

Adam Baruch, the pen name of Baruch Rosenblum, was an author, lawyer, editor, art critic, and essayist. He was born into an Orthodox family in Jerusalem and studied law at the Hebrew University. Beginning in the 1960s, Baruch wrote for the newspapers Yediot aḥaronot and Maariv. He was a founder of the art monthly Musag and an editor of the periodical Monitin, the curator for the Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and president of the Camera Obscura School of Art. In 1999, Baruch received the Yeshayahu Leibowitz Prize for Contemporary Philosophy.