Herz Bergner | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1907 Radymno, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1970 Melbourne, Australia |
| Occupation | writer |
| Language | Yiddish/English |
| Nationality | Polish/Australian |
| Years active | 1928–1966 |
| Notable works | Between Sky and Sea |
| Notable awards | ALS Gold Medal |
Herz Bergner (1907–1970) was a novelist who was born in Radymno, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1907. His family moved to Vienna, Austria, at the start of World War I, and returned to Poland at the end of the war. Bergner's brother, Melech Ravitch, a Yiddish writer, emigrated to Australia in 1933. Herz Bergner followed him in 1938, originally to raise funds for Jewish secular schools in Poland.[1] Once in Australia Bergner met Pinchus Goldhar and other Yiddish writers and, together with Abraham Schulman and Goldhar, began the literary publication Oyfboy which was published in Melbourne.[2]
In 1948 Bergner was awarded the ALS Gold Medal for his novel Between Sky and Sea.
Herz Bergner died in 1970.[2]