Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white giving expression to our cultural

giving expression to our cultural life

For Rankin

'Erotocello'

inspired by his brother Arthur

Yosl Bergner 'From Alice Springs to the Kimberleys, from The Kimberley Album' black & white giving expression to our culturalThe 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