Prof. Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Birds of a Feather: Sephardic Jews and the Exotic Birds’ Feathers Craze in Pre-WWI Europe (Virtual on Zoom)
Virtual Program
In partnership with JIMENA From the 1880s to the First World War, Jews fostered and nurtured a global ostrich feather trade; from Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers...
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