(Prices may vary for AK and HI.). [ WSJ ] The NFL Shop is courting women. Anyone interested in fashion, Jewish and economic history will find this book interesting. --Katherine Sorrels. "—Mark Kurlansky, author of SALT: A World History, "Stein's book is fascinating (who knew there was an ostrich-feather bubble?) The author's article "Falling into Feathers: Jews and the Trans-Atlantic Ostrich Feather Trade", which is the basis for her book, Winner of the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. ... ("a consignment of £20,000 worth of the plumes … "—The Atlantic, “I loved this book. Enticing, alluring cover, but this book is geared for the scholarly reader! Please try again. One hundred years ago, ostrich feathers were worth almost as much by weight as diamonds, and businessmen argued that they were equivalent in durability. Professor Stein is also the winner of a 2018 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. Plumes, Sarah Stein's new study of feathers —- and, by extension, of course, the fortunes of the millinery industry — is on our eccentric Christmas list. The research was particularly thorough - the footnotes are as interesting as the text. global commerce stein sarah abrevaya isbn 9780300168181 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon stein s plumes ostrich feathers jews ... 2010 09 28 sarah abrevaya stein books amazonca plumes ostrich feathers jews and a lost world of global commerce sarah abrevaya stein author creator stein sarah This is both a history of the ostrich feather trade, and also a history of the Jews throughout Northern Africa and also South Africa. It seems like a silly question, unless one takes into account the foibles of human enthusiasms and the price tags we put on them. Reinvent yourself and grow radical influence. Wonderful read. This book reads like it is based on a PhD thesis, and it was a real struggle to read, but I was determined to get through it. An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2019. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. . Please try your request again later. [The book] succeeds admirably and eloquently both as historiographic exhortation and historical evocation, richly bringing life to lost worlds of commerce and culture. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2009. $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-300-12736-2. Become persistent. [Plumes] also gives us an economic parable, a morally complex narrative and lends some gravity to one of the most deceptively airy fashion trends. Hard to belive that Ostrich feathers were as valuable as diamonds early in the 20th century. Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. ... Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers,... "This interesting book examines the world trade in Ostrich feathers (mostly for women's hats) from the 1880's to the World War I era. I knew nothing about the subject, but Sarah Stein … kept me going right to the last page … her comprehensive, meticulous, and fascinating history … [is] a vast subject, which she admirably outlines in straightforward language … a terrific [story].” - Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review, “It is impossible to read this story of boom and bust without drawing on parallels to today’s market: Stein lucidly analyses how a single global commodity was shaped by modern consumer desires, and how it was destroyed almost overnight by a sudden shift in fashion.” - Judith Flanders, Sunday Telegraph, ‘Stein follows the path of the feathers from South Africa to the sorting houses and manufacturers of London and New York … and … discusses in some detail the working life of the young women and girls who prepared the feathers for sale … She makes interesting points about the origins and rise of the South African trade and explains the consequent decline of the market from the north African ports of Tripoli, Benghazi and Essouaria.’ - Prudence Hone, Guardian, Edited by Katie Trumpener and Tim Barringer, Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection. Children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Einhorns were born and raised in New York City, where they attended public schools. Borrow it Toggle Dropdown Albert D. Cohen Management Library; Architecture/Fine Arts Library; Archives and Special Collections; Bibliothèque Alfred-Monnin (Université de Saint-Boniface) . When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-18542-8. Unable to add item to List. Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Something went wrong. Reviewed for EH.NET by Andrew Godley, Henley Business School, University of Reading. . "—Emily Benichou Gottreich. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It holds its place like the diamond." For example, in Book of Memoirs, Reminiscences of South African Jewry, by N.D. Hoffman, (1916) translated from Yiddish,there is a lovely description of ostriches. Free shipping for many products! "Plumes makes extremely valuable contributions to Jewish history, economic history, and cultural history. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Or get 4-5 business-day shipping on this item for $5.99 Her new book, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century, is available in November of 2019 with Farrar, Straus … The Idea Lifestyle Bundle is a comprehensive step-by-step system to effectively fulfill dreams, create successful business ideas and speak impromptu. explores the fragility of an economy driven as much by fashion as by greed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xii + 244 pp. No magic, it's a science and I'm here to be your unique teacher. She discovers that Jews fostered and nurtured the trade across the global commodity chain and throughout the far-flung territories where ostriches were reared and plucked, and their feathers were sorted, exported, imported, auctioned, wholesaled, and finally manufactured for sale. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, professor of history, and holder of the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. She is the award-winning author and editor of nine books. Plumes book. Excellent purchase. Sarah Abrevaya Stein has done that, and more, in _Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce_ (Yale University Press). This is a strangely interesting account of a little-explored corner of economic history; it's also academic enough to be worth serious study and quirky enough to be worth reading for the vaguely interested reader. The material is particularly fascinating, especially as I have an ostrich feather fan and a single plume inherited from my great-grandmother, and I am sure that people tried to establish ostrich farms in Australia before WW1, just as the South African farmers took our - South Australian - wattle seed at that time and set up wattle farms for the bark used in tanning, and killed an industry here because they had cheap (slave) labour. Have used the info in sharing with Smithsonian and Audubon. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. . The Influencer Economy: How to Launch Your Idea, Share It with the World, and Thriv... Magic of Public Speaking: A Complete System to Become a World Class Speaker, The Other Side of Success: Money and Meaning in the Golden State. In-depth conversations with experts on topics that matter. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2009. The cover of this book appeals to the general reader, but I feel the style is is more suited for the academic. Amid a raft of commodity histories. "In telling the story of the rise and fall of the ostrich plume market and its intersections with a particular Jewish cultural world, Sarah Abrevaya Stein aims to reframe Jewish social history as we know it. Sarah Abrevaya Stein follows the path of the feathers from South Africa to the sorting houses and manufacturers of London and New York. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, Department of History, UCLA. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Stein has opted for an innovative approach that provides precisely the right tools for the job. I would have loved to have seen a photo of the Bimah from the synagogue which still exists in the C.P. In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Please ensure you're using that browser before attempting to purchase. "A fascinating and timely new book . Why is it that diamonds are regarded as high value and feathers are not? In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws o When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. Or that ostrich feathers could be "harvested" with no harm at all to the bird? . You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Acquire experience of applying the most effective public speaking techniques used by 1000 of the world's best speakers. "—Ian Paulsen. _Plumes_ is an academic treatise, full of footnotes and wide research, but the peculiarity of its topic makes it funny and sad as well. . And she maintains that tricky balance between engrossing historical narrative and cultural theory. Bought as used but clearly a brand-new item. "In telling this story, Stein challenges both the taboo against discussion of Jews and commerce and some of the existing work on this somewhat controversial topic." "—Raquel Laneri, Forbes.com, "Assorted histories—world, fashion, economic, Jewish—converge in this fluent account of an esoteric trade and its far-flung principals. From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York’s Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, as well as Professor of History and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. “Motivation is what gets you started. I was amazed at what I found online about South Africa after reading this book. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, as well as Professor of History and the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century and Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, […] The Idea Lifestyle Bundle: An Effective System to Fulfill Dreams, Create Successful... Healthcare from the Trenches: An Insider Account of the Complex Barriers of U.S. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn, Yale University Press (September 28, 2010). From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York’s Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Having visited Oudtshoorn many times as a child and adult, I was always fascinated visiting an ostrich farm in the area. as well as prescient (over-reliance on credit, neglecting to diversify your assets, the belief that a commodity will never, ever lose value—sounds vaguely familiar). Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2014, Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2015, Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2009. There was a problem loading your book clubs. "In telling the story of the rise and fall of the ostrich plume market and its intersections with a particular Jewish cultural world, Sarah Abrevaya Stein … Stein's new book reminds us that the modern Jewish experience has had far more than its share of economic ups and downs, but also that Jewish life and those who cherish it somehow manage to go on and on. Not only that, but studying of the feather bust is probably healthful for those of us a hundred years later who have our own economic woes. Stein, a professor who concentrates on Jewish Studies, takes a look at this episode which has not only been forgotten but its Jewish origins have been forgotten, too. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 11, 2014. Stein is co-winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (2010, for Plumes) and an elected member of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Reads like a PhD thesis project......AND we got a lot of important historical information about the effect of the feathers on the hat industry. Subscribe to hear when New Releases or Catalogs are ready! In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. Read this book to become visible in a seemingly noisy online world from day #1. Editorial Reviews "Plumes makes extremely valuable contributions to Jewish history, economic history, and cultural history. Our shopping cart only supports Mozilla Firefox. Brenda Richardson; With an introduction by Allison N. Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England 1500-1750. I knew nothing about the subject, but Sarah Stein … kept me going right to the last page … her comprehensive, meticulous, and fascinating history … [is] a vast subject, which she admirably outlines in straightforward language … a terrific [story].”, Jonathan Mirksy, Literary Review, March 2009, “I loved this book. Please try again. Ostrich feathers have, of course, faded from fashion, but any bubble can make an interesting study of human behavior. Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015. "[A] captivating book. has been added to your Cart. A fine ostrich feather was "an investment for life" wrote one observer at the time, and went on that the plume "has been in fashion for centuries past, and will probably be for centuries to come. Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. There is no mention of the Safari Ostrich farm which still exists today and the family who farmed there for generations. . . When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. An unusual story! Sarah Abrevaya Stein. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. . This book is in conversation with, and contributes to, many fields, including colonialism, economic history, and Jewish history.”—Derek J. Penslar, professor of history. Sarah Abrevaya Stein has done that, and more, in _Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce_ (Yale University Press). She discovers that Jews fostered and nurtured the trade across the global commodity chain and throughout the far-flung territories where ostriches were reared and plucked, and their feathers were sorted, exported, imported, auctioned, wholesaled, and finally manufactured for sale. Sarah Stein joins the podcast to talk about her recent book, Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey through the Twentieth Century, and how looking closely at the history of one family can tell us the story of an entire century. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce. This is a singular story of global commerce, colonial economic practices, and the rise and fall of a glamorous luxury item. . A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, Eugenics in the Garden: Transatlantic Architecture and the Crafting of Modernity (Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Tran), Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. “In this innovative and intriguing book, Stein zeroes in on one colonial commodity—ostrich feathers—and produces the first coherent history of their production and trade. Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2014. Sarah Abrevaya Stein’s ninth book is Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the book uses the Levy family’s correspondence to tell the story of their journey spanning generations and the globe. Are you tired of quitting? It is a bit much to slog thru but read it from cover to cover. This is a singular story of global commerce, colonial economic practices, and the rise and fall of a glamorous luxury item. Oscar Einhorn worked for most of his adult life in a manufacturing business founded by his father. I did find the chapter on the Cape left out information that could have been included, and reflected possibly the fact that the author did not have all information available. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. And author of Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.. Read this book. Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2010. I write this without the book because I have given it away as a prize in a raffle, I think so much of it. plumes ostrich feathers jews and a lost world of global commerce Sep 17, 2020 Posted By Lewis Carroll Publishing TEXT ID d643705f Online PDF Ebook Epub Library tool for books media journals databases government documents and more sarah abrevaya stein plumes ostrich feathers jews and a lost world of global commerce plumes It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. Sarah Abrevaya Stein. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce Sarah Abrevaya Stein PhD The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. Excellent purchase. Who knew that feathers were once worth as much as diamonds? “One of the most imaginative books in modern Jewish history that I have read in a very long time.”—Todd Endelman, professor of history. . The Art of Persistence: Stop Quitting, Ignore Shiny Objects and Climb Your Way to S... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. "Sarah Abrevaya Stein's meticulously researched Plumes is delightfully intriguing in its detail—a forgotten page of Jewish history that shows the lengths enterprising people will go to for a difficult but profitable niche market. An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. brief and deftly written book historian sarah abrevaya stein recreates a lost world of the global commerce in plumes in which the breeding of ostriches the plucking packing finishing and forwarding of their feathers was a truly global operation conducted almost entirely in south africa by russian lithuanian and elsewhere by sephardic jews in When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. . Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Plumes : Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah Abrevaya Stein (2010, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! This is a must for any hat museum. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. . Buy this book. New museum in Oudtshoorn. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce (Yale University Press, 2008) Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (2010) ... Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, co-editors, translation and glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi (Stanford University Press, 2012)