It was from here, from the chaotic, sunny and tropical city of Rio de Janeiro, that most of the sources of Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s recently published book Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the twentieth-century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) emerged. Stein is a UCLA historian and her herculean undertaking required conducting research in eight languages, nine countries, and on three continents.
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