Consulting

Sarah Abrevaya Stein has served as consultant, advisor, and board member for institutions as varied as the The Walt Disney Company, Pixar, The World’s Jewish Museum of Tel Aviv, the Skirball Cultural Center, Jewish Story Partners, Facing History & Ourselves, the television series “I Love Dick,” and universities around the world. Currently Professor of History, Viterbi Family Chair of Mediterranean Jewish Studies, and Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA, she is a frequent speaker and writer on Jewish diversity.

Stein has empowered Jewish organizations to be more inclusive in outlook and orientation—and companies & culture creators to be more nuanced in their approach to Jews, Jewishness, and Jewish history. She lectures for specialist and general audiences on:

  • Inclusive approaches to Jewish history

  • Sephardi, Mizrahi, and Mediterranean Jewish cultures

  • Race, racism, and Jewish communities

  • Jewish experiences of colonialism

  • Minorities in North Africa

  • Holocaust history

  • Family history

  • Anti-Semitism

Winner of the 2018 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for teaching, Stein is equally compelling before audiences of hundreds and in intimate settings. She is the author or editor of ten books on modern Jewish history, many of which are award-winning.

“Stein, a UCLA historian, has ferocious research talents... [and a] voice that is admirably light and human.” —Matti Freedman, New York Times

Stein guides…with a restrained but humane voice.” —Sara Lipton, New York Review of Books

Stein’s prodigious research, a true labor of love, gives voice to some of those who have been silenced.”—Alexander Nehamas, The Jewish Review of Books

“Stein skillfully draws a map of [Sephardic] memory-scape and poignantly traces its travails.” —Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal

“This professor is AMAZING! She really takes history and makes it accessible to hundreds of students. Further, her presentations are creative and unique from every other classes I’ve taken. She pulls meaningful evidence and really elicits emotions in her students…Excellent!” —UCLA student