Sarah Abrevaya Stein is professor of history and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of "Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce" and "Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires", and coeditor of "A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The ""Ladino Memoir of Sa adi Besalel a-Levi "and "Sephardi Lives: a documentary history, 1700-1950".