Baruch
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceBaruch may refer to:
- Baruch College, part of the City University of New York
- Bernard Baruch, an American financier, stock market speculator, statesman, and presidential adviser.
- Book of Baruch or 1 Baruch, a deuterocanonical book, considered by Jews and most Protestants to be apocryphal
- 2 Baruch, also called the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
- 3 Baruch, also called the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
- 4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah when combined with the Epistle of Jeremy
- Baruch ben Neriah, aide to the prophet Jeremiah
- Baruch (His Dark Materials), a fictional angel in the His Dark Materials series
- Baruch Plan, a proposed U.S. atomic energy plan following WWII
- Also related to "berakhah" or bracha (Hebrew: ברכה; plural ברכות, berakhot), which is a blessing. See also: Baraka and Barakah.
Baruch may also be used for:
- Baruch, son of Zabbai; one of Nehemiah's helpers in repairing the walls of Jerusalem ()
- Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh; a member of the Tribe of Judah who settled in Jerusalem ()
- The Baruch of Baghdad, the king of the Saracens in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
People with the surname Baruch
- Bernard Baruch, American financier
People with the given name Baruch
- Baruch Spinoza, Dutch rationalist philosopher
- Baruch Blumberg, American Nobel-prize winning physician, developed Hepatitis B vaccine
- Baruch Goldstein, American-Israeli physician who murdered 29 Muslim worshippers in 1994
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