Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is a prominent American historian of Sephardic and Mediterranean Jewries.

She is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and holder of the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and her B.A. from Brown University.

Stein is the author of ten books, many of them prize-winning. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic.

Stein is the author of ''Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.''Her 2008 book ''Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce'' won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

New York Times contributor Matti Friedman has written that "Stein, a U.C.L.A. historian, has ferocious research talents....and a writing voice that is admirably light and human."'

Stein’s books, articles, and pedagogy have won numerous prizes, including two National Jewish Book Awards, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. She is co-editor, with David Biale of Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture.

Stein has served as consultant, advisor, and board member for institutions as varied as The Walt Disney Company, Pixar, The World’s Jewish Museum of Tel Aviv, the Skirball Cultural Center, Jewish Story Partners, Facing History & Ourselves, the television series I Love Dick, and universities around the world. She is a frequent speaker and writer on Jewish diversity. Provided by Wikipedia