Today we found the relics of the Star Theatre here in Darwin. This is the site that Melech Ravitch photographed in 1933 and the last of the 90 photographs that he took on his journey across Australia. If you look closely you can see the faint outline of a star on top of the building that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Mogen David. Ravitch thought that this was a sign that a Jewish settlement was destined for the Australian Northern Territory. Ravitch predates Steinberg and soujourned to these parts via weeks and weeks of travel by train and mail truck. What a crazy poet he was. He was part of the Yiddish literary scene in Warsaw with contemporaries such I.B. Singer and helped to give him his start. We are making a virtual pavilion in his honour as part of Imaginary Jewish Homelands to mark his importance to the Kimberley plan.
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