Morris Zoltan "Morry" Schwartz, AM (born 11 March 1948) is an Australian property developer and publisher based in

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. He is the owner of

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, the publisher of the influential ''

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'' and ''

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''.Susan Wyndham
"Developer adds another story"
in ''

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'', 12 June 2004

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"Morry Schwartz"
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Early life

Morry Schwartz was born in 1948 in

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, Hungary. His parents, Andor and Margaret (Baba) Schwartz, were both Holocaust survivors. Andor’s parents, brother and sister, and extended family were murdered during the Holocaust. Baba herself was a survivor of Auschwitz. He and his parents were smuggled across the border to Germany in 1949 when he was one year old, in order to migrate to the newly established State of

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, where he spent most of the next nine years. A visit from Baba’s sister, who had also survived the Holocaust and had made her home in Australia, convinced Andor that there were new opportunities on the other side of the world. Schwartz and his parents, along with his younger brother Alan, migrated to Australia to join Baba’s sister. After finishing school at the selective Melbourne High, he studied architecture briefly before deciding he didn't have the patience for six years of theory. He dropped out to travel, spending time in Indonesia and Cambodia, before returning to get into the film business. In 1973, with three friends, Schwartz began a company, Outback Press, the start of his publishing empire. But he also launched a concrete pouring company, Aardvark, which evolved into a property development group, called Pan Urban.

Book and magazine publishing

In the 1980s he established

Schwartz Publishing Schwartz Publishing is an Australian publishing house, digital media and news media organisation based in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria established by Australian property developer Morry Schwartz in the 1980s. Since the late 1990s many of its ...

, mainly publishing American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller was ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' with 300,000 copies sold. In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up the Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the ''

'' and, since 2005, ''

''. On 1 March 2014 he launched ''

,'' and in 2017 ''Australian Foreign Affairs,'' a journal discussing foreign policy''.''

Property development

In 1974 he moved into the construction and property development industry. His company first named Aardvark was later renamed Pan Urban. Schwartz is currently the major stakeholder of Pan Urban. Its portfolio includes the St Falls, Silverski and Huski hotels in

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, the Watergate towers in Docklands and the refurbishment of the Melbourne General Post Office. Several of these projects have been designed by his stepdaughter, architect

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.Ashley Crawford
"Daring to dream"
in ''

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'', 6 May 2005 In 2009, he set up a real estate website, listing only houses for sale valued at over $1 million.

References

External links

Schwartz MediaBlack Inc.
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