Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, as well as Professor of History and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. Learn more about her award-winning books and upcoming speaking engagements at sarahastein.com, or join the conversation @sarahastein. Sarah 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, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Sarah lives with her family in Santa Monica, CA.