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Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland

Anna Epstein

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Description:In 1933, an eccentric Yiddish poet called Melekh Ravitsh traversed the Australian outback from Adelaide to Darwin in search of a homeland for the direly threatened Jews of Europe. On this romantic and optimistic enterprise, he took 90 Box Brownie photographs, annotated in Yiddish. Decades later, Ravitsh’s son, the artist Yosl Bergner, was inspired by his father’s photographs to make a series of paintings called Melekh Ravitsh in the Kimberleys.Inspired by this wildly imaginative pair and their prescient recognition of the common fate of Indigenous Australians and persecuted European Jews, curator and writer Anna Epstein has combined their stories and images into a glorious and moving book about art and history, Jews, and white and black Australians.Join us for the book launch by ABC broadcaster Rafael Epstein. The afternoon’s entertainment includes a Melekh Ravitsh poetry reading by Arnold Zable, psychotherapist Moshe Lang channelling his dear friend Yosl Bergner and an exhibition of a selection of his magnificent paintings.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland. To get started finding Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 159

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Real Film and Publishing

Release: 2019

ISBN: 0648405613

Description: In 1933, an eccentric Yiddish poet called Melekh Ravitsh traversed the Australian outback from Adelaide to Darwin in search of a homeland for the direly threatened Jews of Europe. On this romantic and optimistic enterprise, he took 90 Box Brownie photographs, annotated in Yiddish. Decades later, Ravitsh’s son, the artist Yosl Bergner, was inspired by his father’s photographs to make a series of paintings called Melekh Ravitsh in the Kimberleys.Inspired by this wildly imaginative pair and their prescient recognition of the common fate of Indigenous Australians and persecuted European Jews, curator and writer Anna Epstein has combined their stories and images into a glorious and moving book about art and history, Jews, and white and black Australians.Join us for the book launch by ABC broadcaster Rafael Epstein. The afternoon’s entertainment includes a Melekh Ravitsh poetry reading by Arnold Zable, psychotherapist Moshe Lang channelling his dear friend Yosl Bergner and an exhibition of a selection of his magnificent paintings.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland. To get started finding Melekh Ravitsh: The Eccentric outback quest of an urbane Yiddish Poet from Poland, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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