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Baruch Berliner

Baruch Berliner is an Israeli composer, poet and mathematician who also worked as an actuary and insurance researcher.

born 1942The symphonic poem AbrahamMusic on Torah themesActuarial and insurance research

Occupation: poet, composer, writer
Education: University of Zurich

Baruch Berliner was born in 1942 in Tel Aviv

Baruch Berliner was born in Tel Aviv in 1942. He earned a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

In Switzerland he worked as an actuary at the reinsurance company Swiss Re until 1990. That year he moved back to Israel with his family. From 1990 until he retired in 2007, he was a senior researcher at the Faculty of Management at Tel Aviv University and chaired the Erhard Scientific Insurance Institute.

He wrote 2 books and more than 100 articles on actuarial science, finance and economics. He also writes poetry in Hebrew, German and English, and a book of his humorous German poems came out in 2020.

His musical works include The Creation of the World and Abraham, a symphonic poem for orchestra, narrator and male choir. In 2016 the Ukraine Symphony Orchestra played his works at a concert in Kyiv marking 75 years since the Babi Yar massacre. His music was later performed in many countries, including Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in 2021, and at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2024.

Milestones in Baruch Berliner's life

1942
Born in Tel Aviv.
1990
Returned to Israel and joined Tel Aviv University as a senior researcher.
2007
Retired from Tel Aviv University.
2016
His works were played at a Babi Yar memorial concert in Kyiv.
2020
Published a book of humorous poems in German.
2021
His Torah-themed works were performed in Turkey, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
2022
His setting of El Malei Rachamim was used in the film The Address on the Wall.
2023
His works were played in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
2024
His symphonic poem Jacob's Dream was performed at Carnegie Hall.