Yosl Bergner 'The Whisper, from The Kimberley Album' earth tones perhaps from a 1960s television

perhaps from a 1960s television show

Judith WHITE

Julian Lymburner

Embossed with Port Jackson Press Australia stamp

It is a rare dry-point etching from Blackman's beloved Mother Goose series

Yosl Bergner 'The Whisper, from The Kimberley Album' earth tones perhaps from a 1960s televisionThe 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