Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies as well as a professor of history and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of nine books including Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, 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.
