The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
Melech Ravitch’s Territorialist Scouting Trip to Kimberley, West Australia
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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).
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Yosl Bergner.
This excerpt is in Yiddish.
Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. Yosl died in 2017.
This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.
