In Good Faith

Adam Baruch

2001

“Eretz Israel.” There is not one. We already grew up on one sublime Eretz Israel which is almost the be-all-and-end-all of everything. The place of the Jewish people. Its homeland, its right, its prayer, the cause of its spirituality. Rabbi Yehuda Halevy: Eretz Israel is at a special height on the scale of existence. And therefore Rabbi Yehuda…

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Creator Bio

Adam Baruch

1945–2008

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.

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