Reception by journalists on arrival

Viktor was very well received as a journalist in Israel and this photo shows a reception in his name at the House of Journalism in Tel Aviv in 1973.

In Israel, with Alla

Being interviewed by La Stampa, an Italian newspaper

Next to his new car in Tel Aviv

This photo is taken in the parking lot of Beit Brodetski, a new immigrant absorption center in Ramat Aviv, a Tel Aviv suburb. At the time it was considered to be an “Elite” center for only the most privileged of new immigrants. There we lived for 9 months, including the period during the Yom Kippur War. The color of our new car was …canary yellow! Why? Because my father, impatiently waiting for his first time ever owned vehicle, decided not to wait for a more subdued color.

A reception at Moshe Kashti's house

Upon arrival from Moscow to Israel, our family was frequently hosted by respectable local families. Moshe Kashti was a deputy in Zahal and lived in Zahala - a prestige neighborhood for IDF officials in Tel Aviv. Later on in life, Alla worked as a chief doctor in Israel in Zahala, Tel Aviv.

Alla Perelman in Ramat Aviv, Israel

Alla worked as a physician in Kupat Cholim in Tel Aviv, Israel

Family at work...

Two years after arrival in Israel in our apartment in Tel Aviv.

My Bat Mitzvah gift - Charlie

Despite the struggles of immigrant life my family endured, I got what I begged for, on the day of my Bat Mitzvah - my puppy Charlie, who later emigrated with us to the US. We celebrated my Bat Mitzvah at our cozy apartment with a small group of friends.

In Paris-at the house of V. Nekrasov

My father traveled quite a bit to Europe - France, Italy and Germany - he gave interviews, radio broadcasts and met with other writers. Here, he is photographed at the Paris residence of his friend and "Time and We" author, Viktor Nekrasov, in the mid or late nineteen seventies.

Alla Perelman in Paris

Viktor frequented Paris and here Alla is shown with an author in Paris in 1978

Alla Perelman in Israel

With Ilya Suslov, journalist, 1983

Ilya Suslov, a journalist in "Voice of America", 1983

My parents in the US - 1983

Viktor with first cousins

Viktor's aunt emigrated from Russia right after the revolution with 3 small boys. These cousins, especially Joseph Rubin, supported our family during dissident times in Moscow.

Dancing with my father, 1983

In front of his NYC office on 5th Av

This snapshot was taken by my father's good friend, Viktor Nekrasov during one of his visits to the U.S. in the 1980s. At the time, the 'Time and We" office was located in the center of NYC on 5th Avenue, very close to NY Public Library.

In NYC with 2 geniuses

Viktor with best friends and notable people-Boris Moishezon (Mathematics, Columbia University) and Aaron Katsenelenbogen (Economics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), 1983

With friend, Professor Moishezon

At Lincoln Center with my father's friend from Moscow days in the 1970s. Moishezon was a well-known and highly respected Professor of Mathematics, tenured at Columbia University. Boris, lived in Leonia, and died unexpectedly in his 50s while jogging at the local park. When my father visited the U.S. before we immigrated here, he often stayed with the Moishezons and fell in love with Leonia, a NJ town where my parents lived until 2001.

Lecturing at Columbia University

Viktor was frequently called upon to lecture and present on "Time and We" in the 1980's. Columbia University was a subscriber to the magazine.

Celebrating 100 issues of Time & We

The celebration of the 100th issue of "Time and We" took place on the rooftop of a NJ high-rise building hosting large crowds - including famous writers, artists, musicians, journalists, family and friends.

Ernst Neizvestniy and A. Pisarenko

Alex Pisarenko, who MCd the celebration of the 100th issue of "Time and We" is seen next to Ernst Neizvestniy, a friend of Viktor who attended the event, 1988

100 issues of "Time and We"

With Alla,100th Issue of Time & We

At the celebration of the 100th issue of "Time and We" magazine in NJ, U.S.A.

100th issue of "Time and We"

There was a terrific music and poetry reading program at the event with many famous people attending, MC'd by Alex Pisarenko 1988

100th issue celebration

Painter Yuri Krasniy, next to Nataliya Moishezon, wife of Columbia University mathematician Boris Moishezon

My parents

Hosting Vagrich Bakhchanyan

In our house in Leonia, my parents hosting the late famous painter Vagrich Bakhchanyan, who designed the covers for 66 of "Time and We" issues, 1990

At home with Alla, Leonia NJ

Holding Mark, Brit Mila, 1989

Brit Mila of first-born grandson Mark

Enjoying his firstborn grandson Mark

1993 in Leonia, NJ

Perelmans with 6 months old granddaughter, Lara

in 1993

With Mark at Kennedy Space Center

Alla Perelman at home

In the background - painting by late Shimon Ockshtein, gifted to the Perelmans by author

With Efim and Alla Manevich

Close friends of my parents since Moscow, then Israel and at the US till Viktor's last days - often traveled and spent a lot of time together.

Traveling in Italy - Venice

In Japan

My father was inspired by his trips and wrote in “Time and We’ about his travels.

in Japan

Viktor and Alla in Japan

Traveling, Switzerland

Travelling, Canary Islands

In Switzerland

With brothers of Lifshitz Trio

With European friends-Two brothers-violinist and cellist, from Zurich Philharmonic, Switzerland

In Nice, France with my father

Six months before my father had his first stroke, I visited my parents at their apartment in South France, where they stayed several times for 3-4 months at a time. My father dreamt of this kind of retirement and diligently studied the French language, while in France - convincing my mother to do the same. However, sadly he fell ill shortly after and they were forced to leave France, and never returned again.

Irina Perelman visiting her parents

in Nice, France in 2000

At the grave of Doulgoroukoff

In 2000, while living in Nice, France Viktor frequented Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery. He got ill a year later.

Grave of Alexander Herzen

Viktor frequented visiting the graves of famous writers buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in Nice, France a year before he got ill

At Mark's Bar Mitzvah, in 2002

This was one of the few photos taken of my father while he was already ill. In general, he did not like to be photographed. This is taken at his first grandson’s Mark Bar Mitzvah in 2002. My father passed away in 2003 - he unfortunately did not make it to his granddaughter’s Lara Bat Mitzvah in 2004. My daughter Victoria, his youngest grandchild, was named after her grandfather. She was born in 2005.

Viktor in his "Editor" chair at home

This is the very chair at our living room in Leonia, where my father sat for long hours, sorting and reading tens of manuscripts on a daily basis.

Viktor in his "Editor" chair at home

This is the very chair at our living room in Leonia, where my father sat for long hours, sorting and reading tens of manuscripts on a daily basis.

10 Year Memorial in 2013, NJ

A year before my father passed away