La America: The Sephardic Experience in the United States

Front Matter......Page 2
La America: front page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
The Story of This Book......Page 13
In the Beginning......Page 19
Organizations and Disorganization......Page 29
A Hispano-Levantine Community......Page 49
Toward a Unified Community......Page 71
Old and New Sephardim Meet......Page 98
The Struggles of La America......Page 116
Zionism among the Sephardim......Page 139
Economic Life......Page 148
The Sephardic Diaspora in the U.S.......Page 158
The Next Generations......Page 174
Epilogue......Page 187
Notes......Page 195
Bibliography......Page 219
Index......Page 223
Moise Gadol, the editor of La America.......Page 231
Albert Amateau, one of the chief protagonists in Gadol’s dispute with La Vara......Page 232
Albert Torres, publisher of La Vara.......Page 233
The Angel family and neighbors......Page 234
The Alba Sephardie Club in the early 1920s......Page 235
The interior of Shearith Israel......Page 236
the site of the Shearith Israel Sisterhood’s settlement house......Page 237
The building of the Sephardic Brotherhood......Page 238