Alice Schwarz-Gardos

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Alice Schwarz-Gardos

Alice Schwarz-Gardos (31 August 1916 in Vienna - 14 August 2007 in Tel Aviv) was an Austrian-born Israeli journalist and author. She was noted for her work as an editor for German-language newspapers in Israel, and was editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten . She documented political and cultural events and displayed Zionism in her stance. [1]

Schwarz-Gardos was born in Vienna in 1916, the daughter of a manager at the Vienna Union-Bank who was forced in retirement after the stock exchange crash of 1929. The family relocated to Bratislava, where she attended the German Realgymnasium and began a course studying medicine. While in Bratislava she contributed her first articles for the newspaper Der Grenzbote, and won a youth prize writing for the Neue Freie Presse in 1935. [1] Her family fled from the National Socialists in Bratislava [2] and moved to Palestine in 1939 upon the outbreak of World War II. She was employed by the Royal Navy in 1942 as a secretary. From 1949 she worked as an editor for the Yedioth Hayom , a German-language daily in Israel, and as a press officer of the Jewish Agency. She married Slovak-born composer Eli Gardos in 1964, who had set up a music school in Hadera. From the 1960s she worked as a foreign correspondent for the Tagesspiegel , Die Presse and Hamburger Abendblatt and wrote 11 books in German. [1] She was appointed chief of the Israeli daily newspaper Israel-Nachrichten in 1975. [2]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Alice Schwarz-Gardos". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Alice Schwarz-Gardos". Der Spiegel. 20 August 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2017.