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An intimate chronicle of Sephardic Jewish history

Sarah Abrevaya Stein brings the Levy clan of Salonika to life

How they used to live

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century. By Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 336 pages; $28.

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