Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Family papers

Oclc number

1082548461

Responsibility statement

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sub title

a Sephardic journey through the twentieth century

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

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