Tuesday, December 15, 2020
7:00-8:00 PM
Off Campus Location
Join author Sarah Stein as she presents her book "Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century"
For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree.
Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and holds the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of many books, including "Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century" and "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce." The recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Stein lives with her family in Santa Monica, CA.
More Information: https://book.jccannarbor.org/schedule/family-papers-a-sephardic-journey-through-the-twentieth-century/
Register Online: https://operations.daxko.com/Online/4088/ProgramsV2/OfferingDetails.mvc?program_id=TMP29837&offering_id=SES698917&location_id=B368
For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as it was experienced by Sephardic Jews across the Ottoman Empire. The wars of the twentieth century, however, redrew the borders around them, in the process transforming the Levys from Ottomans to Greeks. Family members soon moved across boundaries and hemispheres, stretching the familial diaspora from Greece to Western Europe, Israel, Brazil, and India. In time, the Holocaust nearly eviscerated the clan, eradicating whole branches of the family tree.
Named one of the best books of 2019 by The Economist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and holds the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of many books, including "Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century" and "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce." The recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Stein lives with her family in Santa Monica, CA.
More Information: https://book.jccannarbor.org/schedule/family-papers-a-sephardic-journey-through-the-twentieth-century/
Register Online: https://operations.daxko.com/Online/4088/ProgramsV2/OfferingDetails.mvc?program_id=TMP29837&offering_id=SES698917&location_id=B368
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
|---|---|
| Location: | Virtual |
| Event Type: | Livestream / Virtual |
| Tags: | Jewish Studies, Literature |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Judaic Studies |
