Victor Perera passed away recently. He was best known for his work "The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey," in which he chronicles his family's history since the expulsion from Spain and explores the parameters of his Jewish identity. He was an instructor in writing at University of California Berkeley and an important figure in the northern California Sephardi community. Though "The Cross and the Pear Tree," is probably already in nearly every library's collection I thought this might be an opportune time to remember Perera and set a few more copies of his books out there before the reading public. We ship and bill to libraries, of course.
The BOOKS 1. Perera, Victor. "The Cross and the Pear Tree: A Sephardic Journey." London, Andre Deutsch, 1995. First UK edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xii, 282 pp., b/w photos, bibliography, index. Hardbound. Very Good. $15.00 2. As above. The American edition. $15.00 3. Perera, Victor. "Of Whales and Men: Patagonian Encounters." Berkeley, CA, The Author, ca. 1998. Quarto, plastic spiral binding, paper covers, 125 single-sided sheets. Softbound. Very Good. This appears to be a version of the published text that Perera may have used in his writing classes at UC Berkeley. A recent publication, but very scarce. $25.00 4. Perera, Victor. Unfinished Conflict: The Guatamalan Tragedy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 382 pp., map., b/w photos, epilogue, bibliography, index. Hardbound. Very Good. Photographs by Daniel Chauche. Perera's Jewish Guatamalan childhood is described in his memoir "Rites: A Guatamalan Boyhood." This book, though it seems far from Judaica I think is interesting. Here is a Sephardic Jew, born in the America's, telling the story of a genocide that happened in his native land. $12.50 End Henry Hollander, Bookseller 843 Twenty-Fourth Avenue San Francisco, CA 94121 http://www.hollanderbooks.com 415-831-3228 fax 415-831-3226 Jewish books in all fields and languages. =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
