Melech Ravitch’s Territorialist Scouting Trip to Kimberley, West Australia

Subject	Australia--Emigration and immigration—History
	Jewish families
	Jewish authors
	Yiddish language
	Western Australia
Category	5. Cold War (including Decolonisation)
Author	Bergner, Yosl
Publisher	Wexler Oral History Project
Place Of Publication	Tel Aviv
Keywords	Jewish
	1950s
	Kimberley, W.A.
Creator	Whitney, Christa
Current Holder	Yiddish Book Centre
Date	2014-06-23
Access Rights	Digitised
Rights	Wexler Oral History Project/ Yiddish Book Center
Country Of Origin	Australia
Place	Kimberley
Journey	Brussels
Language	Yiddish
Description From Source	Yosl Bergner, z"l, painter and descendant of Yiddish writers Hinde Bergner and Meylekh (Melech) Ravitch, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on June 23, 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. Yosl died in 2017. Yosl Bergner, z”l, painter, remembers the trip his father, Yiddish writer Melech Ravitch, took to northwestern Australia on a scouting mission for the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonisation, which was seeking a place to build a Jewish state (parallel to but separate from the Zionists).
Physical Format	Video recording