The First Volunteer - Paul Lowinger pride won the Voss Literary Prize

won the Voss Literary Prize

John Murray Publishing 2021

began arriving in Australia in the late 1940s

and the best and worst of the human spirit

But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance

The First Volunteer - Paul Lowinger pride won the Voss Literary PrizePROLOGUE 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