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DESCRIPTION:“Amateur Films and Sephardi Joy: A Global Spin”\n	with Sarah Abr
 evaya Stein (UCLA)\n\nPresented by the Department of Jewish Studies\n\nRSV
 P required: via the online form\n\nThis talk explores family photographs a
 nd amateur films of Sephardi communities as a springboard from which to di
 ve deeply into the everyday lives of southeastern European Jewish children
 \, women\, and men before the Holocaust. Scattered in private hands and a 
 few archives around the world\, family films capture Sephardi Jews living 
 before their near-total extermination—and offer a moving and intimate glim
 pse of a lost milieu. In this presentation\, Stein thinks about amateur fi
 lm and photography as sites of interaction\, shaped by intimate relationsh
 ips between photographer and subject\, which offer a unique “archive of jo
 y” for the Sephardi world. Our site of entry is Ottoman Monastir [current 
 day Bitola in the Republic of North Macedonia]\, a city that has been Otto
 man\, Serbian\, Bulgarian\, Yugoslavian\, German\, Bulgarian\, Macedonian\
 , and North Macedonian over the last 120 years.\n\nSarah Abrevaya Stein is
  Distinguished Professor of History and Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterran
 ean Jewish Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of ten books\, inc
 luding\, most recently\, Wartime North Africa: a Documentary History\, 193
 4-1950 (Stanford University Press\, co-authored with Aomar Boum\, granted 
 the Best Historical Materials award by the American Library Association (2
 023) and AJL Judaica Reference Award by the Association for Jewish Librari
 es (2023)\, and Family Papers\, a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth 
 Century (Farrar\, Straus\, & Giroux 2019)\, named a Best Book of 2019 by T
 he Economist and an Editor’s Choice Book by the New York Times Book Review
 . She is recipient of the 2025 Salo W. and Jeanette M. Senior Scholar Awar
 d for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience from the U
 niversity of Vienna\, the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature\, two Nati
 onal Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, 
 and multiple National Jewish Book Awards\, Stein lives and surfs in Santa 
 Monica\, CA.\n
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LOCATION:Ballroom \, Thomson House\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1Y2\, 3650 ru
 e McTavish
SUMMARY:The Levites Annual Lecture 2025
URL:/arts/channels/event/levites-annual-lecture-2025-3
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