Colors from a Zionist's Palette—A Trilogy

The first story in the trilogy: AN IMPROBABLE ZIONIST recollections, is a light autobiographical sketch of life s twists and turns, which leads the young Larkey, later in life, to adventures and commitments he could never have envisioned in that very place he had once scoffed at in his youth that very place which lies 6000 miles to the east of Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A. To round out the trilogy, the two additional short stories in this volume entitled: NAZI GERMANY and the SINAI a link to the past and my first time... UNDER KATYUSHA FIRE show tantalizing glimpses of the author s extraordinary adventures in his adopted home. Sometimes he uses fictional characters to tell the story. Other times, he himself is the protagonist. But in either case, the readers will enjoy a full 360A° panoramic view of the author s physical and emotional surroundings, as the story unfolds. All three stories, although fictional in part, are derived from real life experiences, mostly during Larkey s more than 40 years of living out his dream in the Jewish Homeland.

Arieh (Richard) Larkey was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1935. A the age of eighteen, he volunteered to serve in the American Army and was sent to Occupied Germany as part of the NATO forces. It was there that his sense of Jewish identity intensified. Following the Six Day War in 1967, Arieh once again experienced a heightened awareness of his Jewish heritage, which eventually led to his aliya in 1971. After a 30 year architectural career, Larkey closed his Jerusalem office and began to write. His books include: A Townhouse in Jerusalem (1996), Ruth Revisited A Survivor's Journey (2001), Landscape of Conflict, Israel's Northern Frontier (2003) and Grandpa's Mountain Letters from a border Kibbutz in Israel (2007). The author divides his time between his home in the historical town of Zichron Yaacov, on the Mediterranean coast and the frontier town of Mitzpeh Ramon in the heart of the Negev Desert in Southern Israel.