{"product_id":"family-papers-sarah-abrevaya-stein-9781250758170","title":"Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2019 by \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003eand a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice. A National Jewish Book Award finalist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A superb and touching book about the frailty of ties that hold together places and people.\" --\u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFamily Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, the prizewinning Sephardic historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein uses the family's correspondence to tell the story of their journey across the arc of a century and the breadth of the globe. They wrote to share grief and to reveal secrets, to propose marriage and to plan for divorce, to maintain connection. They wrote because they were family. And years after they frayed, Stein discovers, what remains solid is the fragile tissue that once held them together: neither blood nor belief, but papers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith meticulous research and care, Stein uses the Levys' letters to tell not only their history, but the history of Sephardic Jews in the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Abrevaya Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250758173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250758170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d","brand":"Sarah Abrevaya Stein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48998491947263,"sku":"9781250758170","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/family-papers-sarah-abrevaya-stein-9781250758170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}