Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones completed by Lymburner prior to

completed by Lymburner prior to his death

composing a visual melody that must be seen to be heard

It is both a tribute and an absurdist

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Yosl Bergner 'The Message, from The Kimberley Album' cool tones completed by Lymburner prior toThe 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