Evidence: | 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her stories were not so alien to him as one might imagine: somehow the animal characters reminded him of the Latvian village from which he had come. Chaim soon became a fan of the Beano's Lord Snooty, an aristocrat who inexplicably consorted with a gang of working class kids: the strip fulfilled every schoolboy's fantasy of finding himself among wealthy people in a noble setting"...[as] young Bermant... followed the progress of the Second World War on the Glasgow Herald and the Manchester Guardian [he felt a strong sense of British identity]. The war, the school, the boys' weeklies were all "building up new obsessions to replace the old and drawing reassurance and pride from the Empire".' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1939 and 31 Dec 1945 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Glasgow | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Chaim Bermant |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 26 Feb 1929 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | father a rabbi then a slaughterer; Bermant later a writer |
Religion: | Jewish |
Country of origin: | Poland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | n/a |
Title: | The Manchester Guardian |
Genre: | Reference / General works |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 4556 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jonathan Rose | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven | |
Date of Publication: | 2001 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 334-5 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jonathan Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (New Haven, 2001), p. 334-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4556, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See Chaim Bermant, 'Coming Home' (London, 1976), pp 39-40, 54 |
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