Bibles Shredded j

TORONTO — A ship-
ment of 200 Bibles for the
Jewish community in Syria
was returned recently to the
Toronto post office shred
into bits. The Bibles were
shipped by Cong. Beth
Tzedeck of Toronto.

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Friday, December 24, 1982 31
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Amertca' The Sephardic Experience in the U .S.

PHILADELPHIA — "La
America: The Sephardic
Experience in the United
States" (Jewish Publication
Society) by Marc D. Angel is
the story of the more than
25,000 Levantine Sephar-
dim who entered the U.S.
between 1899 and 1925.
These were Jews from Tur-
key, Syria, Greece, Bul-
garia, Rhodes and other
lands.
The account of their
American resettlement, un-
like that of their East Euro-

pean co-religionists, has
gone largely unrecorded.
"La America" is thus a wel-
come contribution to an
understanding of this
long-neglected aspect of the
American Jewish experi-
ence.
The book takes its title
from the Judeo-Spanish-
language newspaper La

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the Sephardic group into a
central authoritative
organization, a dream that
was never to be fulfilled.
As the author writes:
"Moise Gadol was perhaps
the greatest voice of the
immigrant Sephardic com-
munity during the years in
which La America ap-
peared. He was an heroic
figure, although seldom ap-
preciated by many of his
contemporaries .. .
"This book is primarily
a study of the Judeo-
speaking Sephardim of
New York from 1910 to
1925 as seen through the
eyes of Moise Gadol and
his newspaper La
America. On its pages we
can see firsthand the
struggles of the Sephar-
dim to adapt to a new way
of life. This is the story of
a people arid of one man,
the description of a sliver
of history with ramifica-
tions that transcend
time."
Angel is the rabbi of
Cong. Shearith Israel. He is
the author of "The Jews of
Rhodes: The History of a
Sephardic Community" and
has served as editor of
"Studies in Sephardic Cul-
ture" and "Rabbi David De
Sola Pool: Selection from
Six Decades of Sermons,
Addresses, and Writings."
He is the founder and di-
rector of Sephardic House, a

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cated to Sephardic history Shearith Israel.

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founded in 1654. These two
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groups, separated by cen-
turies of history, were now
coming together as es-
tranged relations.
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America sought to forge
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