requiem by Austrian composer René Staar, performed in November 1998 in Prague by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra at Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfinum. With his wife Valerie, he had two daughters Erika and Monica, and four grandchildren, David, Maya, Melina, and Lisa. Remembering Alan Levy Alan Levy chose to become active in our country during what was for us a very sensitive and important period -- the time of creating a free, open environment for the media. Because of his human qualities and professional experience, he quickly became recognized as a not inconsiderable figure for whom I had great respect. What is more, I regret him leaving us at a point when a number of Czech media outlets are blurring the limits between serious and tabloid journalism. Václav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic Quotes "I dreamed only of seeing Prague again before I died. Isolated in Austria by an Iron Curtain ... I nonetheless had a premonition that somehow I would die here. It never dawned on me until soon after 1989's Velvet Revolution that first I could live here." "The miracle of my life is to awaken every morning in the 21st century – in Prague." "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s. For some of us, Prague is Second Chance City; for others a new frontier where anything goes, everything goes, and, often enough, nothing works. Yesterday is long gone, today is nebulous, and who knows about tomorrow, but, somewhere within each of us, we all know that we are living in a historic place at a historic time."–in The Prague Post, October 1, 1991 (first issue) "A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again."–in the film Rex-patriates, 2004 Bibliography (a selection of the 18 books) The Wiesenthal File, Alan Levy, William Eerdmans Publishing, Michigan, 1993 Vladimir Nabokov: The Velvet Butterfly, Alan Levy, Permanent Press, Sag Harbor, NY, 1984 (pbk.) W.H. Auden: In the Autumn of the Age of Anxiety, Alan Levy, Sag Harbor, NY, 1983 (pbk.) Ezra Pound, the Voice of Silence, Alan Levy, Sag Harbor, NY, 1983 (pbk.) Rowboat to Prague, Alan Levy, Grossman Publishers, NY, 1972 External links Top Post editor Levy