Re: Sephardic Soul Of Spain

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In a message dated 12/30/98 1:30:12 PM, you wrote:

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Victor Perera has done some wonderful writing--I had heard he was sick.
Has he passed away, or is he still with us to write some more?
>>

Victor Perera had a very bad stroke , but is still with us. The following is
from the concert program

Born in Guatemala of Jerusalemite Sephardi parents, Victor Perera's writings
are nourished by three cultural streams:Jewish Hispanic, Latino, and North
American. He is the author of a novel set in Spain, "The Conversion"....His
most recent book, "The Cross and the Pear Tree, A Sephardic Journey (Knopf, UC
Press), chronicles his family's roots in the Iberian Peninsula and their
peregrinations in Europe and the Middle east, following the Inquisition and
the Expulsion. The book ends with his own experiences in Guatemala, Spain and
the Jerusalem of his ancestors.

Simon
Hatikvah