Yosl Bergner 'The Whisper, from The Kimberley Album' earth tones Embossed with Port Jackson Press

Embossed with Port Jackson Press Australia stamp

Judith WHITE

edition of 75

The vivid blue pigments

perhaps from a 1960s television show

Yosl Bergner 'The Whisper, from The Kimberley Album' earth tones Embossed with Port Jackson PressThe story behind this work is stranger than fiction. It begins in 1933 when Yiddish poet, playwright, essayist and activist Melech Ravitch (a pseudonym for Zekharye Khone Bergner) left Europe in search of a new home for Europes increasingly threatened Jewish population. He arrived in Australia with the fantasy that among the Kimberleys lied the Promised Land for his people. Decades later his son, the acclaimed artist Yosl Bergner, memorialised this