At the Operation Pedro Pan: A 50 Year Perspective conference, Carlos Eire gave an overview of Operation Pedro Pan
Dr. Carlos Eire arrived in the US on April 6, 1962 with his brother Tony. He is now the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. A historian of late medieval and early modern Europe, and a Pedro Pan, he has two identities that seldom intersect. To a broad reading public world-wide, he is best known as the author of the National Book Award-winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003), which has been translated into over a dozen languages, and of the recently-published Learning to Die in Miami (2010). As a historian of religion, he is known by scholars and students as the author of War Against the Idols: the Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin (1986), and From Madrid to Purgatory: The Art and Craft of Dying in Sixteenth Century Spain (1995), and more recently, A very Brief History of Eternity (2009). He is also co-author of Jews, Christians, Muslims: An Introduction to Monotheistic Religions (1996). Carlos is a Trustee of Operation Pedro Pan Group Inc. and a member of OPPG's Historic Committee.
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