Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA professor of history, recently published "Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century" (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Stein's fourth book, "Extraterritorial Dreams," follows the motives and stories of Sephardi Jews who emigrated from the Ottoman Empire to seek citizenship in various European countries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Stein explores these experiences through a series of case studies that span the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas as her subjects struggle to find legal residence during a time of upheaval.
Stein, who earned her doctorate from Stanford University, focuses on economic, poltiical and cultural aspects of modern Jewish culture. She is the receipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been recognized extensively for her previous books. For more on "Extraterritorial Dreams," visit the UCLA Department of History's website. Listen to an interview of Stein on the New Books network here.
