''La Vara'' (English: ''The Stick'') was a
Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language weekly newspaper, published 1922–1948 in
New York City
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,
as a national
Sephardi Jew
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ish newspaper in the United States.
[Marc D. Angel]
The Sephardim of the United States: An Exploratory Study
Originally published in ''American Jewish life, 1920-1990'', Taylor & Francis, 1998, . 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.[Helene Schwartz Kenvin, ''This Land of Liberty: A History of America's Jews'', Behrman House, 1986, , p. 133.] It was edited by
Albert Levy,
[Albert Adatto, ''Sephardim and the Seattle Sephardic Community'', University of Washington masters thesis (1939), available at ]Seattle Central Library
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Seattle Room. p. 35–36. a
Salonican Jew, and had a circulation of 16,500 in 1928.
counts it as one of the two most important such publications historically, the other being ''
La America''.
''La Vara'' introduced an English-language section in 1934.
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La Vara National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel (NLI; he, הספרייה הלאומית, translit=HaSifria HaLeumit; ar, المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; he, בית הספרים הלא ...
Communist periodicals published in the United States
Defunct newspapers published in New York City
Greek-American culture in New York City
Greek-Jewish culture in the United States
Jewish newspapers published in the United States
Jewish socialism
Judaeo-Spanish-language newspapers published in the United States
Non-English-language newspapers published in New York (state)
Newspapers established in 1922
Publications disestablished in 1948
Sephardi Jewish culture in New York City
Socialism in New York (state)
Spanish-American culture in New York City
Turkish-American culture in New York (state)
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