Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 376459 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah Abrevaya Stein |
| NOMBRES | Sarah Abrevaya |
| APELLIDO | Stein |
| FIRMA | STEIN S A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Eating on the Ground
The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, and the food's sandy, but you see so much more when you're eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late Ottoman society, and "vernacular" picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering how Sephardic Jews relaxed and ate in nature at …
Wartime North Africa
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentat…
The Queen of Herbs
This ethnobotanical, historical study explores modern Sephardic Jews’ abiding affection for ruta graveolens , rue, or ruda (as it is known in Ladino). Folkloric writing on ruda has emphasized the immutability of Mediterranean Jewish folkways, but ruda has a history that reveals how a plant can further a particular diaspora—not the Jewish diaspora from biblical Israel, nor the Sephardic diaspora from medieval Iberia, but the Jewish diaspora from t…
Botánica Sephardica
This article traces the genealogy of a Jewish-owned botánica located in East Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. Botánicas are understood to manifest an intricate, transatlantic religious, spiritual, and healing world, offering herbal products, sacramental goods, ritual implements, and counseling to Italian, Latinx, Black, and Caribbean practitioners of folk Catholicism, herbalism, hoodoo, Vodou, Santería, Espiritismo, Curanderismo, Òrìṣà worship and …
The Holocaust and North Africa
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neith…
Black Holes, Dark Matter, and Buried Troves
AMIDST THE bloody de ́nouement of the Algerian War of Independence (1954 -1962), Algeria's governor-general directed the assistant district commissioner of Ghardaı ̈a, Jean Moriaz, to create, retroactively, a civil register for the Jews of the Mzab, a valley of five fortified oasis cities in the north of the Algerian Sahara, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers. 1 The register would document the births and deaths of all living Jews born in the…
Jews Northern and Southern
In 1882 the French military occupied and annexed the five fortified oasis cities of the Mzab Valley, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers and in the north of the Algerian Sahara. Among the authorities' immediate concerns was defining the legal status of the several hundred Berberophone and Arabophone Jews of the valley. Concluding that these Jews were not eligible for group naturalization (as France granted the Jews of Algeria's northern depar…
Conclusion
In November 1964, Miriem Sellam approached Paris’s court of appeals seeking to overturn the decision of a lower court that denied her demands for child support, alimony, and reimbursement of a 5,000-franc dowry from her husband, Jacob Sellam. Sellam explained that she and her husband had married not once but twice, and that the pair had never divorced. The first marriage, she recounted, took place in 1938 in Aflou, Algeria, according to Jewish re…
Epilogue
With the help of UNESCO money and the largesse generated (for some, anyway) by the rivers of oil and gas pipelines that link the giant oil and gas fields of Hassi Massaoud and Hassi R’mel to Algeria’s north and sites of export in Morocco and Tunia, the Mzab has fostered a degree of historical preservation unusual within Algeria.1Close Tours of the ancient centers of the Mzab’s five ksours require the company of a guide employed and trained by the…
Saharan Battlegrounds
The Vichy regime (1940-1944) imposed racist restrictions upon Jews and Muslims in Algeria. This legislation was extended to the Algerian Sahara, but southern Algerian Jews were not sent to labor camps as were Jews in northern Algeria and, when they violated “Aryanization” decrees, they faced relatively light punishment. Some Jews from northern Algeria even attempted to relocate to Algeria’s south during the war. After the Second World War, Jews i…
Contested Access
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Jews and Muslims in Algeria’s south assumed ever more strident, and, increasingly, divergent public postures in the face of French military rule. For Mzabi Ibadites, the inter-war period was marked by staunch opposition to French conscription efforts, and by intense debates between conservatives and reformists (that is, proponents of the Islahi movement), especially over the question of how, and by w…
Anthropology and the Ghost of the Colonial Past
During the Algerian war of independence (1954-1962), American anthropologist Lloyd Cabot Briggs was in Algeria’s south conducting research toward his 1964 study of Mzabi Jewry, No More For Ever: A Saharan Jewish Town. To this day, this book is cited by scholars of Jewish and Maghribi Studies as a definitive source on the Jews of Ghardaïa: a transparent documentation of an extinct community, and a requiem to a Jewish community that abandoned its a…
Oil, the Algerian War of Independence, and Competing Stories of Departure
Governing Typologies
Military and colonial officials maintained a kaleidoscopic view of southern Algerian Jews in the decades after France’s conquest of the Sahara. As they shaped law and policy, these officials borrowed freely from centuries-old tropes about Jews that were European in inspiration. They recycled military, colonial, and ethnographic writing about northern Algerian Jewry that had been penned decades earlier, in the aftermath of the French conquest of t…
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
The Field of In Between
In the spring of 1902, Miryam bint Lalu Partush appealed to military representatives in Ghardaïa, in the Mzab Valley (a valley of five fortified oasis cities in the northern Algerian Sahara, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers), for the paperwork that would allow her to undertake a six-month pilgrimage to Jerusalem with her husband, the wealthy merchant Musa (Moshe) bin Ibrahim Partush. Miryam Partush was unusual in possessing the means for s…
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820-1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily life at a time when the finely wrought fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in t…
Jews and French colonialism in Algeria
Within the first decades of France's conquest of Algiers, Algerian Jews became a distinct historical subject, arguably for the first time. Thus while it is a tautology to suggest that the history o
Dividing south from north
Algeria occupies a special place within the context of modern Jewish history, as the only site in the colonial world in which autochthonous Jews were granted citizenship by a colonial power; with the passage of the Crémieux Decree in 1870, some 40 years after the French conquest of Algeria began, roughly 30,000 Jews became citizens of France in one of the only acts of mass naturalisation to occur under modern European imperial rule. It is usually…
Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire
MORE THAN THE PRESENCE of some 100 Taoist monks and priests, the performance of Chinese orchestras, the exchange of mourning gifts, the burning of paper figures in celebration of the spirit of the deceased, the kowtowing of visitors before pictures of the family, the draping of the funereal garden in white silk, the arrival of more than 3,000 gifts and 5,000 mourners-more, even, than the astonishing facts of Silas Aaron Hardoon's fortune, promine…
Sephardic Scholarly Worlds
This article presents synthetically the scholarly contributions of four generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sephardic intellectuals, pioneers of the field of Sephardic Studies, who were born in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans and Levant. These individuals participated in a world of Judeo-Spanish letters that stretched from Jerusalem to Vienna, Livorno to Cairo, Adrianople to Ruschuk, and Sofia to Sarajevo, but whose center of gr…
Plumes
Making Jews Modern
Introduction: Making Jews Modern Part I. The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires 1. Creating A Yiddish Newspaper Culture 2. Creating a Ladino Newspaper Culture Part II. Imaging Culture 3. Iconographies of Agitation 4. The Science of Healthy Living Part III. Advertising Aspiration 5. Images of Daily Life 6. Advertising Anxiety Epilogue
Plumes
Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
Falling into Feathers
Isaac Nurick shipped seven cases packed with 1,708 ostrich feathers from Oudtshoorn, in the western Cape, to London.The cases, which would sail aboard the Saxon, bore his trademark, which featured Nurick's initials and the first letter of his town.The feathers, and six more cases besides, were to be received by the National Bank of London and sold at public auction in December, likely by one of Nurick's favored brokerage firms, Figgis & Co. or Ha…
Jews and French colonialism in Algeria
Within the first decades of France's conquest of Algiers, Algerian Jews became a distinct historical subject, arguably for the first time. Thus while it is a tautology to suggest that the history o
Dividing south from north
Algeria occupies a special place within the context of modern Jewish history, as the only site in the colonial world in which autochthonous Jews were granted citizenship by a colonial power; with the passage of the Crémieux Decree in 1870, some 40 years after the French conquest of Algeria began, roughly 30,000 Jews became citizens of France in one of the only acts of mass naturalisation to occur under modern European imperial rule. It is usually…
Mediterranean Jewries and Global Commerce in the Modern Period
This article writes Jews into the intertwined histories of colonial economics and modern consumption. It explores the involvement of Mediterranean and North AfricanJews in the global trade of a single, highly valued luxury good-the ostrich featherwhose exchange linked the economies of the Sahel, Sahara, and Central and North Africa with one another and the fashion worlds of Europe and the United States.Situating the global ostrich feather trade w…
Wartime North Africa
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and the notable; locals, refugees, the displaced, and the interned; soldiers, officers, bureaucrats, volunteer fighters, and the forcibly recruited. At times their calls are lofty, full of spiritual lamentat…
Asymmetric Fates
Contemporary speakers and scholars of Yiddish, on the one hand, and Ladino, on the other, face certain parallel pressures, most acute among them the evisceration of native speakers and centers of learning. Largely as a result, Yiddish and Ladino studies, perhaps more than ever, are conditioned today by nostalgia and mourning, sentiments both competing and complementary. If the fates of Yiddish and Ladino-and their speakers and scholars-have in ce…
The Field of In Between
In the spring of 1902, Miryam bint Lalu Partush appealed to military representatives in Ghardaïa, in the Mzab Valley (a valley of five fortified oasis cities in the northern Algerian Sahara, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers), for the paperwork that would allow her to undertake a six-month pilgrimage to Jerusalem with her husband, the wealthy merchant Musa (Moshe) bin Ibrahim Partush. Miryam Partush was unusual in possessing the means for s…
Sephardic Scholarly Worlds
This article presents synthetically the scholarly contributions of four generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sephardic intellectuals, pioneers of the field of Sephardic Studies, who were born in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans and Levant. These individuals participated in a world of Judeo-Spanish letters that stretched from Jerusalem to Vienna, Livorno to Cairo, Adrianople to Ruschuk, and Sofia to Sarajevo, but whose center of gr…
Faces of Protest
This article turns to an unexplored genre of Russian letters-the Yiddish cartoon-in order to consider how the most popular Russian Jewish newspaper of the early twentieth century participated in the Revolution of 1905-07. By exploring cartoons published in Derfraynd (St. Petersburg, 1903-1913, renamed Dos lebn February-July 1906) Sarah Abrevaya Stein reflects on how the Yiddish press reflected and shaped evolutions in Russian Jewish popular opini…
Sander Smarts
eaders of Sander Gilman's recent book might muse that he has masterminded the use of computer-composition: of cutting, pasting, and rearranging from a database of documents and insights that have been skillfully recycled through a prolific scholarly career. If veteran readers of Gilman open Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image ofJewish Superior Intelligence1 at random, they may be struck by the uncanny sense that they could be reading any nu…
Diversified Diasporas
Sander Smarts
eaders of Sander Gilman's recent book might muse that he has masterminded the use of computer-composition: of cutting, pasting, and rearranging from a database of documents and insights that have been skillfully recycled through a prolific scholarly career. If veteran readers of Gilman open Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image ofJewish Superior Intelligence1 at random, they may be struck by the uncanny sense that they could be reading any nu…
Faces of Protest
This article turns to an unexplored genre of Russian letters-the Yiddish cartoon-in order to consider how the most popular Russian Jewish newspaper of the early twentieth century participated in the Revolution of 1905-07. By exploring cartoons published in Derfraynd (St. Petersburg, 1903-1913, renamed Dos lebn February-July 1906) Sarah Abrevaya Stein reflects on how the Yiddish press reflected and shaped evolutions in Russian Jewish popular opini…
Making Jews Modern
Analyzes how the Jewish popular press in the Russian and Ottoman empires helped construct modern Jewish identities
Carole B. Balin, To Reveal Our Hearts
Asymmetric Fates
Contemporary speakers and scholars of Yiddish, on the one hand, and Ladino, on the other, face certain parallel pressures, most acute among them the evisceration of native speakers and centers of learning. Largely as a result, Yiddish and Ladino studies, perhaps more than ever, are conditioned today by nostalgia and mourning, sentiments both competing and complementary. If the fates of Yiddish and Ladino-and their speakers and scholars-have in ce…
Falling into Feathers
Isaac Nurick shipped seven cases packed with 1,708 ostrich feathers from Oudtshoorn, in the western Cape, to London.The cases, which would sail aboard the Saxon, bore his trademark, which featured Nurick's initials and the first letter of his town.The feathers, and six more cases besides, were to be received by the National Bank of London and sold at public auction in December, likely by one of Nurick's favored brokerage firms, Figgis & Co. or Ha…
Mediterranean Jewries and Global Commerce in the Modern Period
This article writes Jews into the intertwined histories of colonial economics and modern consumption. It explores the involvement of Mediterranean and North AfricanJews in the global trade of a single, highly valued luxury good-the ostrich featherwhose exchange linked the economies of the Sahel, Sahara, and Central and North Africa with one another and the fashion worlds of Europe and the United States.Situating the global ostrich feather trade w…
Plumes
Plumes
From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, this text explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture.
The Cape of Southern Africa
This chapter examines the history of Jews' preeminence as feather buyers in the Western Cape, South Africa, and investigates how Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire come to dominate the lucrative South African ostrich feather trade. It also explores how the work of these feather merchants as buyers and sellers of ostrich feathers influenced their Jewishness, and evaluates whether their Jewishness influenced their vocational pursuit. The cha…
The Trans-Saharan Trade
This chapter examines the involvement of Mediterranean Jews in the trans-Saharan ostrich feather trade. It explains that Mediterranean Jews operated across the geographic breadth of this commodity chain and occupied nearly all of its industrial tiers. The chapter suggests that the Mediterranean Jews in the feather trade were not so very different from their American Jewish peers in that they exhibited versatility and geographical flexibility in t…
London
This chapter examines the role of London as the global ostrich feather hub. It suggests that the rise of London as the center of the global feather trade was enabled by its own evolution into a turn-of-the-century world market and highlights the fact that the city was particularly hospitable to an emergent industry overwhelmingly populated by Jews. The chapter also considers the story of I. Salaman and Company to show how a single Jewish-owned fi…
Introduction
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the role of the Jews in the history of ostrich farming and plume trade. The book explores the involvement of the Jews in the production, financing, purchase, and preparation of plumes in South Africa, the southern Sahara, West Africa, and the Mediterranean and their export to London. It shows how deeply transhemispheric currents of capital, bodies, and goods affected moder…
Sephardic Scholarly Worlds
This article presents synthetically the scholarly contributions of four generations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sephardic intellectuals, pioneers of the field of Sephardic Studies, who were born in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans and Levant. These individuals participated in a world of Judeo-Spanish letters that stretched from Jerusalem to Vienna, Livorno to Cairo, Adrianople to Ruschuk, and Sofia to Sarajevo, but whose center of gr…
Protected Persons? The Baghdadi Jewish Diaspora, the British State, and the Persistence of Empire
MORE THAN THE PRESENCE of some 100 Taoist monks and priests, the performance of Chinese orchestras, the exchange of mourning gifts, the burning of paper figures in celebration of the spirit of the deceased, the kowtowing of visitors before pictures of the family, the draping of the funereal garden in white silk, the arrival of more than 3,000 gifts and 5,000 mourners-more, even, than the astonishing facts of Silas Aaron Hardoon's fortune, promine…
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica
This book presents for the first time the complete text of the earliest known Ladino-language memoir, transliterated from the original script, translated into English, and introduced and explicated by the editors. The memoirist, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi (1820-1903), wrote about Ottoman Jews' daily life at a time when the finely wrought fabric of Ottoman society was just beginning to unravel. His vivid portrayal of life in Salonica, a major port in t…
Jews and French colonialism in Algeria
Within the first decades of France's conquest of Algiers, Algerian Jews became a distinct historical subject, arguably for the first time. Thus while it is a tautology to suggest that the history o
Dividing south from north
Algeria occupies a special place within the context of modern Jewish history, as the only site in the colonial world in which autochthonous Jews were granted citizenship by a colonial power; with the passage of the Crémieux Decree in 1870, some 40 years after the French conquest of Algeria began, roughly 30,000 Jews became citizens of France in one of the only acts of mass naturalisation to occur under modern European imperial rule. It is usually…
Jews Northern and Southern
In 1882 the French military occupied and annexed the five fortified oasis cities of the Mzab Valley, six hundred kilometers south of Algiers and in the north of the Algerian Sahara. Among the authorities' immediate concerns was defining the legal status of the several hundred Berberophone and Arabophone Jews of the valley. Concluding that these Jews were not eligible for group naturalization (as France granted the Jews of Algeria's northern depar…
Conclusion
In November 1964, Miriem Sellam approached Paris’s court of appeals seeking to overturn the decision of a lower court that denied her demands for child support, alimony, and reimbursement of a 5,000-franc dowry from her husband, Jacob Sellam. Sellam explained that she and her husband had married not once but twice, and that the pair had never divorced. The first marriage, she recounted, took place in 1938 in Aflou, Algeria, according to Jewish re…
Epilogue
With the help of UNESCO money and the largesse generated (for some, anyway) by the rivers of oil and gas pipelines that link the giant oil and gas fields of Hassi Massaoud and Hassi R’mel to Algeria’s north and sites of export in Morocco and Tunia, the Mzab has fostered a degree of historical preservation unusual within Algeria.1Close Tours of the ancient centers of the Mzab’s five ksours require the company of a guide employed and trained by the…
Saharan Battlegrounds
The Vichy regime (1940-1944) imposed racist restrictions upon Jews and Muslims in Algeria. This legislation was extended to the Algerian Sahara, but southern Algerian Jews were not sent to labor camps as were Jews in northern Algeria and, when they violated “Aryanization” decrees, they faced relatively light punishment. Some Jews from northern Algeria even attempted to relocate to Algeria’s south during the war. After the Second World War, Jews i…
Contested Access
In the early decades of the twentieth century, Jews and Muslims in Algeria’s south assumed ever more strident, and, increasingly, divergent public postures in the face of French military rule. For Mzabi Ibadites, the inter-war period was marked by staunch opposition to French conscription efforts, and by intense debates between conservatives and reformists (that is, proponents of the Islahi movement), especially over the question of how, and by w…
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