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Born: 1907 Radimno, Poland
Died: 1970
Gender: Male
Heritage: Jewish; Polish
Arrived in Australia: 1938
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Herz Bergner's family left the township of Radimno to settle in Vienna during WW I and returned at the end of the war. During the 1920s Bergner's elder brother, a Yiddish writer, Melech Ravitch, became the secretary of the Union of Yiddish writers in Warsaw. Bergner started writing himself and belonged to a group of young, left-wing Jewish writers. He decided to emigrate when he married and followed his brother, who had originally come to Australia in 1933 to raise funds for Jewish secular schoo....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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23 Sep 2008