La America was a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language weekly newspaper, published 1910–1925 in New York City, as a national Sephardi Jewish 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 Moise S. Gadol, an immigrant from Rostchuck, Bulgaria. Gadol's aim was to unite his readers for social and cultural purposes – "an uphill battle at best".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, , p. 209. Available here.
Marc D. Angel counts it as one of the two most important such publications historically, the other being La Vara.
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