Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Associate Professor, Joint Appointment (JSIS):
Modern Jewish History; Cultural and Social; Comparative Colonialism/Empire; Ethnicity and Nationalism; Historiography
sstein@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/sstein/index.shtml
Education
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1999.
Selected Bibliography
The Pursuit of Plumes: Jews, Ostrich Feathers, and Modern Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008).
Making Jews Modern: the Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires ( Indiana University Press, hardback 2004, paperback 2007).
“Jews, Plumes, and Global Commerce in the Modern Period,” Jewish History Encounters Economy, Gideon Reuveni, editor (Berghahn books, forthcoming).
“‘Falling into Feathers’: Jews and the trans-Atlantic ostrich feather trade,” Journal of Modern History (Winter, 2007).
“Mediterranean Jewries and Global Commerce in the modern period: on the trail of the Jewish feather trade,” Jewish Social Studies 13/2 (Winter, 2007).
“Divining the Secular in the Russian Yiddish popular press,” Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman, editors, Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia (Indiana University Press, 2007), 253-275.
“Asymmetric Fates: Secular Yiddish and Ladino Culture in Comparison,” Jewish Quarterly Review 96.4 (Fall, 2006), 498-509.
“Advertisements in Ottoman Ladino Journals,” Pe’amim, Studies in the Cultural
Heritage of Oriental Jewry 105/106 (Autumn 2005-Winter 2006), 57-82 .
“Modern Jews and the Imperial Imagination,” AJS Perspectives (Fall, 2005), 14-16.
“The Permeable Boundaries of Ottoman Jewry.” Joel Migdal, editor, Boundaries and Belonging: States and Societies in the Struggle to Shape Identities and Local Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 49-70.
Guest editor: “Ladino in Print,” Jewish History (Fall, 2002) 6/3, 225-233.
“Faces of Revolution: Yiddish cartoons of the 1905 Revolution.” Slavic Review, American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 61/4 (Winter, 2002), 732-761.
“Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries since 1492.” Martin Goodman et al., editor, The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, (Oxford University Press, 2002), 327-362.
“Creating a Taste for the News: Historicizing Judeo-Spanish Periodicals of the Ottoman Empire.” Jewish History, 14/1 (2000), 9-28.
“Illustrating Chicago’s Jewish Left: Todros Geller and the L. M. Shteyn Farlag,” Jewish Social Studies 3/1 (1997), 74-110.
Research in Progress
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