A journalist who wrote a five-part series on the rise of antisemitism in France has won the prestigious Chaim Bermant Prize for journalism at a Jewish Book Week session.

Marc Weitzmann, the former editor-in-chief of French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles, received the prize on Sunday for his work, ‘France’s Toxic Hate’.

The five-part series, published by the Tablet magazine in English, looked at the rise in antisemitism in France ahead of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket.

The £5,000 prize was presented to Mr Weitzmann by British actress Maureen Lipman, who shared memories of former JC columnist Chaim Bermant, who died in 1998.

The international competition – in which more than 150 articles and series were submitted - was judged by JC literary editor Gerald Jacobs, former JC editor Geoffrey Paul and Miriam Gross, the former literary editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

Read the series here.