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Chaim Icyk Bermant (26 February 1929 – 20 January 1998) was a British-based journalist, and author. Born in Braslav, Belarus, he spent much of his childhood in Barovke, Latvia, and Scotland. He was educated at Queen's Park Secondary School in Glasgow, Glasgow University, where he graduated in economics, and the London School of Economics.

Chaim Icyk Bermant
Born	(1929-02-26)26 February 1929 Breslev, Poland
Died	20 January 1998(1998-01-20) (aged 68) Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, England
Alma mater	University of Glasgow London School of Economics

He contributed regularly to The Jewish Chronicle and occasionally to the national press, particularly The Observer. An Orthodox Jew and supporter of Israel, he was freely critical of both. He wrote several novels and non-fiction works, mostly on the quirks of British Jewish society.

Biography

Chaim Icyk Bermant was born on 26 February 1929 in Breslev, Poland.[1] His father was a Rabbi.[2]

Bermant studied at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics.[3]

Bermant married Judith Rose Weil on 16 December 1962 at Adath Israel Synagogue in Stoke Newington, London.[1] Together they had four children: Aliza, Evie, Azriel and Daniel Bermant.

Bermant died on 20 January 1998 in Hampstead Garden Suburb, London from a myocardial infarction.[1]

Works

Fiction

• Belshazzar
• Ben Preserve Us
• Berl Make Tea
• The Companion
• Dancing Bear
• Diary Of An Old Man
• Here Endeth The Lesson
• House Of Women
• Jericho Sleep Alone
• The Last Supper
• Now Dowager
• Now Newman Was Old
• The Patriarch
• Roses are Blooming in Picardy
• The Squire Of Bor Shachor
• The Second Mrs Whitberg
• Swinging In The Rain
• Titch
• The Walled Garden

Non-fiction

• The Cousinhood
• Ebla
• Israel
• Murmurings of A Licensed Heretic
• On The Other Hand
• The Jews
• London's East End: Point of Arrival
• Lord Jacobovits: an Authorised Biography of the Chief Rabbi
• Troubled Eden: An Anatomy of British Jewry
• What's the Joke: A Study of Jewish Humour through the Ages

Autobiography

• Genesis: A Latvian Childhood
• Coming Home

References

External links

• Family website

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