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Although his Hebrew name was יצחק (Isaac), he was known as "Arthur" in the secular world. The communities had a special way of pronouncing Hebrew, which retained numerous archaic features lost elsewhere. Although the synagogues still exist today, they have been taken over by North African Jews.
The old ex-converso community has now dwindled to a few individuals.
Thus, Pereyre"s transliteration is invaluable in teaching linguists what how the Hebrew pronunciation of the old community sounded. Professor Moshe Bar-Asher transcribed and published Pereyre"s transliterated Mahzor along with a study of the pronunciation as reflected in lieutenant
Arthur Pereyre is also credited for having copied a manuscript containing a Spanish translation of some haftarot, where the masoretic accents (the teamim) are written on the Spanish text itself, indicating to the reader the way to read and to chant lieutenant This manuscript, discovered in 2014 by Peter Nahon, is believed to be the only non-Hebrew text bearing a punctuation system close to that of the Hebrew Bible.
