Sarah Abrevaya Stein, one of the leading young Jewish historians working today, is the Maurice Amado Chair of Sephardic Studies and Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. Her talk, drawn from the award-winning book Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (2008), will introduce Stein’s startlingly innovative approach to global Jewish history. A recipient of the prestigious Sami Rohr Prize of the Jewish Book Council, Plumes was preceded by Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (2004), winner of the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize for Best First Book in Jewish Studies for 2003 and finalist for the Koret Jewish Book Award in 2004.  

Location: Music Room, Levis Faculty Center

Date: 9/27/10, 8 pm

Video of lecture here.