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

Title: 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: June 23, 2014
Link: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000565/yosl-bergner-2014
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