Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
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Book Title
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Author
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
ISBN
9780374185428
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.A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people. --The New York Times Book Review An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters 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. In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family's correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers. With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Sarah Abrevaya SteinPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 11/19/2019ISBN: 9780374185428Pages: 336Weight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.10dReview Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019 pg. 79Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 112Publishers Weekly 09/30/2019

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.

A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people. --The New York Times Book Review

An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters

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.

In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family's correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers.

With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/19/2019
ISBN: 9780374185428
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019 pg. 79
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2019

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.

A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people. --The New York Times Book Review

An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters

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.

In Family Papers, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family's correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers.

With meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/19/2019
ISBN: 9780374185428
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019 pg. 79
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 09/30/2019