La America

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La America
Typeweekly newspaper
EditorMoise S. Gadol
Founded1910
Political alignmentSephardi Jew
LanguageLadino
Ceased publication1925
HeadquartersNew York City
CountryUnited States

La America was a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language weekly newspaper, published 1910–1925 in New York City,[1] as a national Sephardi Jewish newspaper in the United States.[2][3] It was edited by Moise S. Gadol, an immigrant from Rostchuck, Bulgaria.[2][3] Gadol's aim was to unite his readers for social and cultural purposes – "an uphill battle at best".[4]

Marc D. Angel counts it as one of the two most important such publications historically, the other being La Vara.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ "About Lah Ameriḳah". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Marc D. Angel, The Sephardim of the United States: An Exploratory Study. Originally published in American Jewish life, 1920–1990, Taylor & Francis, 1998, ISBN 0-415-91925-8. Volume 4 of the 8-volume Routledge series American Jewish history, Jeffrey S. Gurock, ed. PDF accessed online 2009-10-30; this is on p. 33 of the PDF, p. 109 of the book.
  3. ^ a b Helene Schwartz Kenvin, This Land of Liberty: A History of America's Jews, Behrman House, 1986, ISBN 0-87441-421-0, p. 133.
  4. ^ Jacob Rader Marcus, United States Jewry, 1776–1985, Volume 4: The East European Period – The Emergence of the American Jew Epilogue, Wayne State University Press, 2018, ISBN 0-81434-505-0, p. 209. Available here.