Beginning of "Time and We"

Tel Aviv, Israel - "Time and We"'s onset in front of a manual typewriter in 1975

Alexander Galich

Poet, playwright - close friend

Joseph Brodsky - writer

Nobel Prize winner for literature. Interview published in "Time and We"

Joseph Brodsky - writer

Nobel Prize winner for literature. Interview published in "Time and We"

Joseph Brodsky - writer

Nobel Prize winner for literature. Interview published in "Time and We"

Viktor Nekrasov - writer

Close friend, Paris

Viktor Nekrasov

Nahum Korzhavin - author

Russian Jewish poet, dissident

Sergey Dovlatov - writer

Famous Russian-American novelist, journalist/colleague in NYC

Sergey Dovlatov - writer

Famous Russian-American novelist, journalist/colleague in NYC

Lev Navrozov - historian

Author - historian, polemicist, close friend

Zinovy Zinik - author

Russian-born British novelist, short story writer and essayist

Arkadiy Belinkov - writer

Russian writer and literary critic, author

Efim Etkind - professor

Author - philologist, dissident, close friend

Efraim Sevela - author

Russian Jewish writer, screenwriter, director, and producer

David Markish - writer

Russian-Jewish writer ,son of Perez Markish, friend

With David Markish in Moscow

Dissidents waiting for permission to leave Russia to Israel (1972)

A. B. Yehoshua - author

Famous Israeli novelist, numerous works translated from Hebrew were published in 'Time and We'

Talla Mikhoels with daughter

Talla Mikhoels, daughter of Solomon Mikhoels with his granddaughter Viktosha-close friends of the Perelmans in Israel. Solomon Mikhoels was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater.

Dora Shturman - author

Essayist and literary critic in "Time and We" and Israeli press

Faina Baazova - essayist

Jewish Georgian-born author of essays and her family's memoirs and Perelman family close friend

Liya Vladimirova, poetess

Russian-Israeli poetess who published prolifically in "Time and We" in the 1970's and 1980's.

Leonid Vladimirov - author

Yuri Karabchievsky - writer

Jewish fiction writer, essayist, poet, frequent author in 'Time and We'

Andrei Sinyavsky and wife

Andrei Sinyavsky - Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, professor of Sorbonne University. Maria Rozanova -publisher, editor, and Soviet-era dissident.

Vladimir Shlapentokh - author

"Founding Father" of Soviet Era sociology, professor of sociology at Michigan State University, close friend

Andrei Sedich

Editor of the New York City Russian-language newspaper 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo' in 1980s-90s

Alexander Mezhirov - poet

Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic

Viktor meeting with colleague

Aaron Katzenelenbogen

Famous economist, UPenn, close friend

with Aaron Katzenelenbogen

At Viktor's grandson's Bar Mitzvah in 2002

Petr Rabinovich - attorney

One of the most influential attorneys of the 1980s and 1990s of the NYC Russian speaking community, close friend

Yuri Nagibin - writer

Eduard Shtein - author

Close friend and author in "Time and We". Hosted our dog Charlie 4 months in America before we immigrated.

Eduard Shtein - author

Close friend and author in "Time and We". Dissident, chess master and professor at Yale University

Milton Friedman - author

American economist, translated author in 'Time and We', Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient

Arkady Lvov - writer, friend

Felix Rosiner - writer

Writer, wrote "Nekto Finkelmayer", author

Felix Rosiner - writer

Writer, wrote "Nekto Finkelmayer", author

Felix Rosiner - writer

Writer, wrote "Nekto Finkelmayer", author

100th issue of "Time and We"

Felix Rosiner on guitar at the celebration (1988)

Professor John Glad

American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature. Frequent author, friend

Professor John Glad

American academic who specialized in the literature and politics of exile, especially Russian literature. Frequent author, friend

John Glad, Lev Aninsky

Viktor Perelman, John Glad, Lev Aninsky, Miron Reidel

Andrei Konchalovsky

Famous Russian Film Director

Nikita Mikhalkov

Famous Russian Film Director

Ernst Neizvestniy - sculptor

Viktor Perelman published Ernst's vernissage and vernissages of many other famous artists. Friend

Ernst Neizvestniy - sculptor

Ernst Neizvestniy - sculptor

100th issue of Time and We

Ernst Neizvestniy and Alex Pisarenko at the 100th issue celebration of "Time and We"

Lev Zbarsky - painter

Close friend of Viktor. Painter, decorator, first husband of Liudmila Maksakova, his father embalmed Lenin in the mausoleum in the Red Square.

Yuri Krasny - painter

Painter, sculptor, very close friend

Yuri Druzhnikov - author

Russian writer

Yuri Druzhnikov - author

Russian writer

Yuri Druzhnikov - author

Russian writer

Yuri Krasny

At the celebration of 100th issue of "Time and We"

Yuri Krasny in his studio

Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Painter, illustrator of 66 issues of "Time and We" magazine covers, friend

Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Painter, illustrator of 66 issues of "Time and We" magazine covers, friend

Alex Prostakov - painter

Created 4 gigantic 'Time and We' collages, together with artist Lev Meshberg

Mikhail Turovsky - painter

Viktor Perelman published a vernissage on Turovsky's Holocaust paintings early on before public interest in these works arose.

Emil Zilberman - painter

Author in "Time and We"

Irina Reikhbarger - artist

Artist whose vernisage Viktor published in 'Time and We'

Lev Borodulin and wife

Famous photo reporter and photographer in Russia and Israel. Took most of the black and white photos of Viktor and family in Russia and Israel. Close friend

Efim Manevich - best friend

Best friend, author

With Alla Manevich

Close lifetime friend and wife of author and close friend, Efim Manevich. Alla also worked in "Time and We" for several years

Entertaining authors

with Time and We author

Hosted in our house together with Vagrich Bachchanian

With Alla Perelman

and Lev Aninsky, who was an editor of "Time and We" in Russia for several years

Journalist Lev Aninsky

While being an assistant editor for Time and We in Russia, Lev Aninsky visited in the USA and spent 3 weeks at the Perelman's home. He recalls this in an interview with Lev Novozhenov in the TV/Radio page of this website.

Lev Navrozov--writer, publicist

Lev Aninski in Leonia office

Writer and (Moscow assistant editor for one year) working on "Time and We" in Leonia NJ during his visit from Russia during their collaboration in late 1990's.

Viktor at a party with Lev Zbarski

Famous painter Lev Zbarski (previously married to Maksakova and Vertinskaya), here seen covering his face not wanting to be photographed

At "Time and We" Leonia office

Viktor and writer Sergey Ivanov at the home office of "Time and We" in Leonia, NJ after Viktor moved the office from NYC.

With Lvov and Gorenstein

Viktor and Alla are dining in Berlin with writers Arkady Lvov and Friederich Gorenstein - Russian-Jewish writer and screenwriter. Arkady Lvov is an author of a famous 800 page comic novel "The Courtyard".

Viktor with Ilya Suslov

Journalist from "Voice of America", close friend

Ilya Suslov

Ilya Levkov - publisher

Viktor and Ilya were sharing an office on 5th Avenue in Manhattan in the 1980's, friend

Photo by Viktor Nekrasov

Snapshot of Viktor in front of his Manhattan office on 5th Ave in the 1980s

409 Highwood Avenue

Our home in Leonia, N.J., where my father had his office for many years and my parents hosted many "Time and We" authors

409 Highwood Avenue

Leonia, N.J.

409 Highwood Avenue

Leonia, N.J.

409 Highwood Avenue

Leonia, N.J.

Editor-in-Chief in his chair

Viktor in his "editing chair" in the living room of our Leonia house where my parents lived between 1981 and 2001.

409 Highwood Avenue

Our home in Leonia, N.J., where my parents lived from 1981 to 2001 - for 20 years. Significant place that my father describes in many of his writings and books.