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.