Martin Ebon

Hans Martin Schwarz was born on May 27, 1917, in Hamburg, Germany.

During the 1930s, Schwarz published in Israelitisches Familienblatt among other German-Jewish periodicals.

In 1938, Schwarz emigrated to the USA, lived in New York City from 1938 onwards, and changed his name from Hans Martin Schwartz to Martin Ebon.

During World War II, he served in the U.S. Office of War Information (formed June 1942), the U.S. Department of State (as an information officer{{cn|date=August 2021}}), and by 1948 had joined the staff of Partisan Review magazine.

In January 1948, Ebon published his first book in English, World Communism Today. The book reviewed a century of Marxism, following the publication of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.

{{cite journal

| title = Book Reviews and Notices

| journal = American Political Science Review

| url = https://doi.org/10.2307/1950156

| pages = 1013–4

| date = 1948

| doi = 10.2307/1950156

| jstor = 1950156

| s2cid = 147605344

| access-date = 8 August 2021| url-access = subscription

}} Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. praised the book as an "outstanding work on communist penetration and strategy."

{{cite news

| title = Comment on World Events

| newspaper = The Potters Herald

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000533/1948-07-22/ed-1/seq-3/

| pages = 3

| date = 22 July 1948

| access-date = 8 August 2021}} The book was cited as an expert source, e.g., 60,000 members in the Korean Communist Party as of 1949.

{{cite news

| title = Communism is Down But Not Out in Japan, Fujita Writes from Tokyo

| newspaper = The Northwest Times

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86071999/1949-10-26/ed-1/seq-4/

| pages = 4

| date = 26 October 1949

| access-date = 8 August 2021}} In March 1948, he appeared on WMAL AM radio in Washington, DC, to discuss "Which Way America – Fascism, Communism, Socialism, or Democracy?" with Raymond Moley (Conservative), Norman Thomas (Socialist), and Leon Milton Birkhead (Unitarian).

{{cite news

| title = On the Air Tonight

| newspaper = Evening Star

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1948-03-16/ed-1/seq-36/

| pages = 36

| date = 16 March 1948

| access-date = 8 August 2021}} His July 1948 article "Communist Tactics in Palestine" in the Middle East Journal received a favorably review as "carefully documented" and "objective and non-partisan." In 1953, his book Malenkov: Stalin's Successor received mixed reviews as "short,"

{{cite news

| title = Beria and the Jews: What Next?

| newspaper = Southern Jewish Weekly

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78000090/1953-09-11/ed-1/seq-148/

| pages = 148

| date = 11 September 1953

| access-date = 8 August 2021}} quickly published (weeks after Stalin's death), and carefully appraising thanks to the author's previous book on world communism.

{{cite news

| first = Carter Brooke

| last = Jones

| title = Lifting the Curtain on Malenkov to See What Russia Has in Store

| newspaper = Evening Star

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1953-05-17/ed-1/seq-106/

| pages = 17

| date = 17 May 1953

| access-date = 8 August 2021}} It drew favorable comparison to Eugene Lyons' Our Secret Allies.

{{cite news

| first = Belmont

| last = Faries

| title = Books on Foreign Affairs Reflect Easing Tensions

| newspaper = Evening Star

| url = https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1953-12-06/ed-1/seq-147/

| pages = 6

| date = 6 December 1953

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

Ebon held various positions in book and magazine retailing, including:

• Managing Editor of foreign language division, Overseas News Agency; U.S. Information Agency, New York City{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Information Officer on Far Eastern desks, 1950–52; Hill & Knowlton, Inc. (public relations), New York City{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Account Executive, 1952–53; Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., New York City, administrative secretary and editor, 1953–65, working closely with its founder, Eileen J. Garrett
• Lombard Associates, Inc. (public relations and publications consultants), New York City, president, 1962–82{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Consulting Editor, New American Library (publishers), 1966–83{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Executive Editor of hardcover book division, Playboy Press, 1971–72{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Lecturer in Division of Social Sciences, The New School, 1949–50, 1955–56, 1967{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Consultant, Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, 1966–67{{cn|date=August 2021}}
• Free-lance writer from 1967 on{{cn|date=August 2021}}

Ebon married Chariklia Baltazzi; they had one son.

Martin Ebon died age 82 on February 11, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Center for Jewish History houses articles written by Ebon between 1934 and 1938 for German-Jewish newspapers, plus reviews of his German-language books.

Ebon published dozens of books on world affairs and parapsychology.

;Books in German

• Einer wie Du und Ich (1937)

{{cite book

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = Einer wie Du und ich : eine Jugend-Erzählung aus unseren Tagen

| publisher = Verlag Robert Alter

| url = https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/KY2W3BMO5P533ZIKLSOWUDIZPPU66DNC?

| pages = 71

| date = 1937

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

• Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches (1937)

{{cite book

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = Heiteres, Besinnliches, Nachdenkliches

| publisher = Verlag Robert Alter

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NoC2MgAACAAJ

| pages = 63

| date = 1937

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

;Books in English

• World Communism Today (1948)

{{cite book

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = World Communism Today

| publisher = Whittlesey House (a division of McGraw-Hill Book Company)

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U6YiAAAAMAAJ

| pages = 536

| date = 1948

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

{{cite book

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = World Communism Today

| publisher = Whittlesey House (a division of McGraw-Hill Book Company)

| url = https://archive.org/details/MartinEbonWorldCommunismToday1948

| pages = 536

| date = 1948

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

• Malenkov: Stalin's Successor, McGraw-Hill, 1953
• Svetlana: The Story of Stalin's Daughter, New American Library, 1967
• Prophecy in Our Time, New American Library, 1968.
• The Making of a Legend, Universe Books, 1969.
• Lin Pao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler, Stein & Day.
• Witchcraft Today, New American Library, 1971.
• Every Woman's Guide to Abortion, Universe Books, 1971.
• They Knew the Unknown, World Publishing, 1971.
• The Truth about Vitamin E, Bantam, 1972.
• The Devil's Bride: Exorcism, Past and Present, Harper, 1974.
• The Essential Vitamin Counter, Bantam, 1974.
• Which Vitamins Do You Need?, Bantam, 1974.
• Saint Nicholas.- Life and Legend, Harper, 1975.
• The Satan Trap: Dangers of the Occult, Doubleday, 1976.
• What's New in ESP?, Pyramid, 1976.
• The Relaxation Controversy, New American Library, 1976.
• The Evidence for Life after Death, New American Library, 1977.
• Miracles, Signet, 1981.
• Psychic Warfare: Threat or Illusion, McGraw-Hill, 1983.
• The Andropov File, McGraw-Hill, 1983.
• Nikita Khrushchev, Chelsea House, 1986.
• The Soviet Propaganda Machine, McGraw-Hill, 1987.
• KGB: Death and Rebirth, Greenwood/Praeger, 1994

;Books as "Eric Ward"

• The President's Daughter with Ursala Russell, Bantam, 1973

;Articles

• "World Communism Has Passed Its Peak," American Mercury (January 1948)
• "Communist Tactics in Palestine," Middle East Journal (July 1948)

{{cite journal

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = Communist Tactics in Palestine

| journal = Middle East Journal

| publisher = Middle East Institute

| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/4321987

| pages = 255–269

| date = July 1948

| volume = 2

| issue = 3

| jstor = 4321987

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

• "Psychic Studies: The Soviet Dilemma," Skeptical Inquirer (1985)

{{cite journal

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = Author: Martin Ebon

| publisher = Psychic Studies: The Soviet Dilemma

| url = https://skepticalinquirer.org/1986/01/psychic-studies-the-soviet-dilemma/

| date = 1985

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

;Miscellaneous

• Letter to Joshua Lederberg (15 November 1985)

{{cite web

| first = Martin

| last = Ebon

| author-link = Martin Ebon

| title = Letter from Martin Ebon to Joshua Lederberg

| publisher = NIH NLM

| url = https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/bb/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101584906X12810-doc

| date = 15 November 1985

| access-date = 8 August 2021}}

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• [http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476091 Guide to the Hans Martin Schwarz collection] at the Leo Baeck Institute, NY.

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