Chaim Icyk Bermant (26 February 1929 – 20 January 1998) was a British-based journalist, and author. Born in Braslaw, Poland, 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. 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 Braslaw, then in Poland but now in Belarus. His father was a Rabbi. Bermant studied at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics. Bermant married Judith Rose Weil on 16 December 1962 at Adath Israel Synagogue in Stoke Newington, London. 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.

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