Melech ravitch biography of george

  • Yiddish poet, essayist, playwright, and cultural activist, one of the world's leading Yiddish literary figures both before and after the Holocaust.
  • Zacharia Bergner (1893-1976), pen name Melech Ravitch, was a Yiddish poet, journalist and cultural activist.
  • Silver seders that turned black (Passover memoir).

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    formed in Lon­don in 1935. Its uppdrag was to search for a homeland, if The Holy nation dream failed. An Australian pastoral firm even offered vast tracts of nation for settlement in the , extending from North Western Australia. Mel­ech Rav­­itch was involved in a serious invest­igation of the Kimberley strategi which had seemed promising. It ended up not going any further, just as other poss­ible remote  (eg Ecuador, Uganda, Madag­as­car) had done. In any case , with bipartisan political support, formally rejected the Jewish Kimb­erley Proposal in 1944. asked how the Aboriginal bekymmer would be resolved if a Jewish settle­ment was successfully created, he said “The blacks cannot be regarded as the owners of the land. A crazy idea! They are on the lowest rung of civilisation. They could be allotted a few thousand square miles of land and be taught to work the land.”

    Melech Ravitch with a ung Aboriginal woman

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    China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals

    Hellerstein, Kathryn. "China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals". Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation, edited by Jasmina Lukic, Sibelan Forrester and Borbála Faragó, Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press, 2019, pp. 303-328. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863305-018

    Hellerstein, K. (2019). China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals. In J. Lukic, S. Forrester & B. Faragó (Ed.), Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation (pp. 303-328). Budapest, Hungary: Central European University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633863305-018

    Hellerstein, K. 2019. China Comes to Warsaw or Warsaw Comes to China: Melech Ravitch’s Travel Poems and Journals. In: Lukic, J., Forrester, S. and Faragó, B. ed. Times of Mobility: Transnatio

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    Vernadsky, George (English), 1942

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     File — Box: Box 4, Box: 4, Folder: 1.262

    Scope and Contents

    From the Series:

    This series contains correspondence between Osherowitch and many important literary and political figures and organizations, including Jacob Adler, the Association to Perpetuate the Memory of the Ukrainian Jews, Abe Cahan, Adolph Held, Jacob Pat, Melech Ravitch, and many others. Materials originally found in the addendum are found in subseries 2.

    Dates

    Language of Materials

    From the Collection:

    The bulk of the collection is in Yiddish, with some English, Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, German, Polish, and French.

    Access Restrictions

    The collection is open to researchers. Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives.

    Extent

    From the Collection: 18 Linear Feet

    Cite Item

    Vernadsky, George (English), 1942, Box: Box 4, Box: 4, Folder: 1.262. Papers of Mendel Osher

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