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The Resource Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

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"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." --
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition
Extent
317 pages
Contents
  • Levy family tree
  • Writers
  • Ottomans
  • Nationals
  • Émigrés
  • Captives
  • Survivors
  • Familiars
  • Descendants
Isbn
9780374185428
Instance
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Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century
Title
Family papers
Title remainder
a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century
Statement of responsibility
Sarah Abrevaya Stein
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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." --
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contains biographical information
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Stein, Sarah Abrevaya,
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • portraits
  • genealogical tables
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Levy family
  • Levy family
  • Sephardim
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish
  • RELIGION / Judaism / History
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
  • Sephardim
  • Greece
Label
Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-307)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Levy family tree -- Writers -- Ottomans -- Nationals -- Émigrés -- Captives -- Survivors -- Familiars -- Descendants
Control code
1082548461
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
317 pages
Isbn
9780374185428
Lccn
2019020324
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40029637881
Other physical details
illustrations, map, portraits genealogical table
System control number
(OCoLC)1082548461
Label
Family papers : a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-307)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Levy family tree -- Writers -- Ottomans -- Nationals -- Émigrés -- Captives -- Survivors -- Familiars -- Descendants
Control code
1082548461
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition
Extent
317 pages
Isbn
9780374185428
Lccn
2019020324
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40029637881
Other physical details
illustrations, map, portraits genealogical table
System control number
(OCoLC)1082548461

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