Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Awards
for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Sarah Stein (© private)

Prof Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the third Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research on the Jewish Experience senior laureate.

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is a historian, writer and educator whose work has reshaped our understanding of Jewish history. Her commitment to research is matched by her love of teaching. At UCLA, she is Distinguished Professor of History and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies. She is the author or editor of ten books, including Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce.

Stein has received many awards including the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Jewish Book Awards, three National Jewish Book Award Finalist Awards, Best Historical Materials Award from the American Library Association, Judaica Reference Award from the Association for Jewish Libraries, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.

She is an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Arabic.