Chaim Bermant (1929–1998)
Autore di Ebla: A Revelation in Archaeology
Sull'Autore
Chaim Bermant regularly wrote for the Daily Telegraph, the Observer and Newsweek, as well as 'On the Other Hand', his weekly column for The Jewish Chronicle.
Opere di Chaim Bermant
Berl makes Tea 1 copia
Genesis 1 copia
Murmurings of a licenced Heretic 1 copia
Genesis. A Latvian Childhood 1 copia
Roses are Blooming in Picardy 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bermant, Chaim
- Nome legale
- Bermant, Chaim Icyk
- Data di nascita
- 1929-02-26
- Data di morte
- 1998-01-20
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Poland (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Breslev, Poland
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Istruzione
- University of Glasgow
London School of Economics - Attività lavorative
- journalist
columnist
novelist
school teacher
biographer
television scriptwriter - Breve biografia
- Chaim Bermant was born to a Jewish family in Breslev, then part of Poland (present-day Braslav, Belarus). His father was a rabbi. In 1933, when he was four, the family moved to Borovka, Latvia, and when he was eight, they emigrated to Glasgow, Scotland. Bermant attended a secular as well as a Jewish school in Glasgow, and then entered Glasgow University, where he graduated in economics. He went on to a degree from the London School of Economics.
From 1955 to 1957, he worked as a teacher in a secondary modern school in Essex, an experience he later drew on for his novel Here Endeth the Lesson (1969). He became a scriptwriter for Scottish Television, then moved to Granada Television in Manchester.
In 1961, he began to work for The Jewish Chronicle (JC), the London-based international Jewish newspaper, and served as its features editor from 1964 to 1966. He then turned to writing his own column, which became "On the Other Hand" in 1978. He also contributed occasionally to the national British press, particularly The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. As an Orthodox Jew and supporter of Israel, he was frequently critical of both. He was a prolific author, beginning with his debut novel, Jericho Sleep Alone, published in 1964. His nonficton work centered around Jewish themes, and included The Cousinhood (1971), and Lord Jacobovits (1990), a biography of Britain's Chief Rabbi.
Some of his journalism was collected in Murmurings of a Licensed Heretic (1990). He was
married to Judith Weil, with whom he had four children.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 40
- Utenti
- 494
- Popolarità
- #50,038
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 80
- Lingue
- 3
Yet set against the fun and the closeness of a Jewish community came the strictures of life as a rabbi's son (father combined his profession with that of a ritual slaughterman, and his son memorably recalls him walking through the forest "to cut a few throats and give private tuition to one or two boys") ...the hours of study of the scriptures, the sense that his father's occupation meant he was an outsider. for fear of him cramping their style.
Of course the piquancy of the whole work comes from the reader's awareness that most of the characters so memorably described will soon be caught up in the Holocaust...the fellow 'gang' members, the kindly neighbours, the good and the flawed. While Bermant includes a selection of b/w photos, they are just faces looking out, more of the millions of victims...but brought to life as real people in his book.
Bermant's father took the family to Glasgow shortly before the situation worsened; seen off at the bus stop by the whole village, he recalls looking back..."they looked small and forlorn as they stood there waving their hands in the morning mist."
In the epilogue, the now elderly Bermant managed to re-establish contact with a few survivors of the village, now living in Israel. Sadly he died before completing his work, and the final part is writtenb by his four children, recalling their father and trying to pull some sort of documentary evidence of the villagers' fates from his notes.
Very moving work.… (altro)