Eugene Schwartz was born in 1933 and grew up in a Jewish section of the Bronx. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 with a B.S. in Economics and became a CPA shortly afterwards.
Eugene became aware of the horrors of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism after the end of World War II. He also became more aware of the issue of Israel and the Palestinians after reading Chaim Weizmann's Trial and Error. These are two of the many topics covered in his book.
Eugene took the opportunity to visit Israel in 1959 as a volunteer on a kibbutz for three months, working in the fields and learning Hebrew. Working six days a week from Sunday to Friday – and with no buses running on Saturday (Shabbat) – he didn't get to see the rest of Israel; so he took a job at Barclays Bank and moved to Jerusalem, where he met and married his Israeli wife, Yudith.
Eugene and Yudith returned to the U.S. in 1959, back to Eugene’s native New York City. In 1961, they decided to try living in Israel and sailed there with their 9 month old son, Jonathan. Their second son, Aaron, was born in Tel Aviv in 1963.
After several years of working for the Israeli Paper Mill in Hadera as Chief Auditor and later as a financial consultant for a large CPA firm, in March of 1967, the family decided to return to America because their landlord had finished law school and needed the apartment they were living in. This was about three months before the Six Day War, which they had no idea was coming.
Back in America, Eugene worked as a Controller for a commodity trading company until he became an independent computer consultant in the 1980s. But he never lost his interest in Israel, and continued reading on Israel - both ancient and modern, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Eugene also taught short courses on modern Israel at NYU, Fairfield University, and Sacred Heart University.
After retiring, Eugene continued to read many books on the history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and became fascinated with the impact these religions had on the history of civilizations in Europe, America, and countries of the Middle East. He then decided to contribute to that knowledge by writing Three Religions - One God, which took over five years to write.