Eating on the Ground
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5738682 |
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| Authors | Sarah Abrevaya Stein (University of California Professor of History, Viterbi Family Endowed Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies, , Los Angeles, US, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1795-1813 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhad373 |
| OpenAlex | W4389330411 |
| Language | EN |
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 a time when so much was shifting around them-and whether the scattered, globally diasporic, families-owned archive of the Sephardic photo album can be united to restore a lived, dusty, lusty image of late and post-Ottoman Jewish life
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Geography · Judaism · Photo-essay · Picnic · Visual arts · Forestry · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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