Creator Bio
Victor Perera
1934–2003
Born in Guatemala, Victor Perera came to the United States at age twelve. He taught journalism and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. The author of novels, short stories, and nonfiction, Perera wrote about the cultures of Sephardic Jews and Maya Indians.
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Rites: A Guatemalan Boyhood
Mar Abramowitz did not attend services in our temple. With a dozen or so other Ashkenazi refugees from Eastern Europe he worshiped in a tiny downtown loft that was said, by those who had never been…