PROGAM starts at 2:30: Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the
Twentieth Century; With meticulous research and care, our speaker uses the family letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.  A prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Sein uses the family’s correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe.

Speaker: 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 Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. Look for Sarah’s award-winning books and learn about upcoming speaking engagements at sarahastein.com, or tune in to @sarahastein. Sarah is the author or editor of ten books, including Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist, a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, and a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. 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, her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic. Sarah lives and surfs in Santa Monica, CA.

Location: classroom at The LA Family Search Library / Los Angeles Family History Library
(Entrance off of Manning Ave. at Santa Monica Blvd.)
1591 E.Temple Way
West Los Angeles, CA 90024

JOIN THE JGSLA (you can join at the door) the library will be open for research after the program.

The library has 50 computers, is home to our JGSLA book collection, Roots-Key
collection, US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records, and map collection.