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The story of the Jewish immigration to the United States in the early years of the century has been fully described in a variety of publications. Less well known is the story of the more than 25,000 Levantine Sephardim who entered the United States between 1899 and 1925. La America, the Judeo-Spanish-language national weekly newspaper founded in 1910 is a welcome contribution to an understanding of this long neglected aspect of the American Jewish experience. Rabbi Angel discovers in the newspaper reports and editorials and brings to the readers" attention the fascinating heritage of American Sephardic Jews From The Jacket In researching an article about the Sephardim of the United States, which appeared in the American jewish Year Book of 1973, I scanned through a number of issues of La America, beginning in 1910. As I quickly reeled through the microfilms of the newspaper at the New York Public Library, I recognized at once that there was a brilliant, vibrant mind behind them. . . . In 1979, I obtained a set of the microfilms of La America and spent many hours each day reading and copying. The work consumed me. Moise Gadol ; was editor of La America, the first ]udeo-Spanish newsp

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Author

Angel, Marc.

Publisher

Varda Books

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590451663

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24