Chaim Bermant: 6 books

Book cover of Ben Preserve Us
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

I bring you up to believe that nothing is good enough for you, and you grow up to be good for nothing. Thus, Mrs. Bindle, on learning that Ben, her only-begotten son, has decided to be a Rabbi; what is more, a Rabbi in a small provincial town in Scotland. Her anxiety proves to be not unjustified,...
Book cover of Diary of an Old Man
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011

"Yes," as Cyril might say, "being old's all right, once you get past the age of trying to be young." First published in 1966, Diary of an old man is a real tour de force. It covers one winter month in the life of an old man living in a tiny pension. The prosaic events which...
Book cover of Lord Jakobovits
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013

Lord Jakobovits has been described by one commentator as Mrs Thatcher's father confessor. A staunch defender of Victorian values and family life, he has propounded his views with a forthrightness and vigour which have often placed him at the centre of controversy and have given him national prominence....
Book cover of Berl Make Tea
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

First published in 1965, this novel asks you not to laugh: it's Berl... Berl's wife ran away with the gardener. Could you blame her? Berl is a little Jewish odd-job man who wanders around in a black serge suit, striped trousers, sandals and a black homburg hat with fungus growing on it. Berl's...
Book cover of Swinging in the Rain
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011

During the war, while others fought, Hesketh planned, as a chocolate manufacturer, to put an end to world strife: Inter-Choc, a world union of chocolate makers, would bring man closer to man - through his sweet tooth. But Hesketh is thwarted by two more powerful urges - chauvinism and sex, the former Gallic, the latter British, but both indomitable.
Book cover of Jericho Sleep Alone
by Chaim Bermant
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

Part Bildungsroman, part hymn to the city of Glasgow, Jericho Sleep Alone is without a doubt the finest book written about the Scots-Jewish experience. From Bar Mitzvah to an unfulfilling teaching career, Jericho Eli Broock finds himself a perennial outsider and unlucky in love, neither his...
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