The First Volunteer - Paul Lowinger pride the Yiddish language bears the

the Yiddish language bears the imprint of the many places where European Jews were briefly given shelter

whom the Islamic theocracy targeted as the first civilian executed during the 1979 revolution

After an audacious escape from a German labour camp

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

The First Volunteer - Paul Lowinger pride the Yiddish language bears thePROLOGUE THANK YOU for picking up this book and reading my story. Perhaps it is not a story at all, but rather a collection of memories of FOUR unforgettable months spent in Israel during my youth. There are many people to whom I am indebted and whom I owe many thanks. There are my Parents, of blessed memory, both on my side of the family and that of my dear wife Kitty, without whose tenacity and inspiration the events in the following pages would