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Early Zionist

He was a native of Yelgava and graduated in law at St.Petersburg University, Russia. After the 1881 pogroms in the Russian Empire, he joined Hibbat Zion movement and edited books in Russian expounding its ideology. He attended the 1887 Druskiniki conference of Hibbat Zion and was secretary of the official founding assembly of the society in Russia, held in Odessa in 1890. Maintaining that mass emigration was essential for Russian Jewry, he became secretary of the Jewish Colonization Association (ICA) founded by Baron de Hirsch which took Russian Jews to various overseas destinations incluing Latin America. Bermann saw this as supplementing - not as an alternative to - emigration to Eretz Israel. He was a founder of the Historical-Ethnographical Committee of the Society for Spreading Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia. He fell ill with tuberculosis and went to live in Cairo, Egypt, where he died.

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