Herz Bergner (1907–1970) was a novelist who was born in Radymno, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1907.
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.