Victor Haim Perera (1934 – 14 June 2003) was an American educator, historian, journalist and novelist, primarily concerned with Latin America and Sephardic Jewry.
He is known for his history of the Sephardic Jews, The Cross and The Pear Tree (1995), which traced the path of his own family from 15th-century Spain to 20th-century Guatemala.
Working as a journalist, he also taught journalism for twenty years at the University of California's campuses at Santa Cruz and Berkeley.
With the anthropologist Robert D. Bruce, he wrote Last Lords of Palenque (1982), a first-hand account of life among the Lacandon Indians.
In Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy (1993), he collected oral accounts of the lives of modern Mayans, and of the murders of many of them by the country's army.