Baruch Meir Rosenblum (9 April 1945 – 24 May 2008), better known by the pen name Adam Baruch, was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.
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Adam Baruch 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 Yitzchok Yaakov Wachtfogel, the 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, the mother of his first son, Ido Rosenblum – a screenwriter and TV personality, and his daughter – the writer Amalia Rosenblum. He lived in Jaffa with his non-married partner, Shira Aviad, who is also mother of his second son – Itay Asher.
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 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 (newspaper) called "Shishi" (sixth, or Friday, in Hebrew), 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 Israel Broadcasting Authority's Channel one, and the short movie "Eye Witness" ("עד ראייה"), broadcast on the Israeli Channel two.