La Vara (English: The Stick) was a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language weekly newspaper, published 1922–1948 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 Albert Levy,Albert Adatto, Sephardim and the Seattle Sephardic Community, University of Washington masters thesis (1939), available at Seattle Central Library Seattle Room. p. 35–36. a Salonican Jew, and had a circulation of 16,500 in 1928. Marc D. Angel 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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External links La Vara, National Library of Israel