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Anti-Semitism and Jewish Youth Alienation Trcluble Latin American Jewish Communities
terest in Israel, especially gets for working class re-
since the 1967 war, has help- sentment, even though they
ed revive some of the or- are by no means the richest
iginal spirit. This is in some group on the continent."
respects similar to the situa-
Many Jews and non-Jews
tion in the United States, it work together in various
was noted.
groups and committees en-
Still, in Argentina, it was gaged in common actions
stated, "approximately 40 and interests, such as the
per cent of Jews as assimi- Christian-Jewish movements,
lated or on their way to as- the efforts for mutual cul-
similation. Many of the tural exchange and the fight
younger Jews are totally un- for human rights, according
concerned with Jewish tra- to the report.
dition or Judaism as a whole.
There are about 800,000
S o m e university students
Jews
in Latin America, Ko-
have turned to the left, adopt-
ing an anti-Israel attitude vadloff said, approximately
that contains elements of 500,000 in Argentina, 120,000
anti-Semitism and r eject in Brazil, 50,000 in Uruguay
Jewish organization's as rep- and 25,000 in Chile. Until re-
resentative of a reactionary, cently, he stated, Argen-
conservative and bourgeois tinian Jews played a leader-
ship role among Latin Amer-
establishment."
ican–Jews,
but the communi-
Jacobo Kovadloff, director
of the American Jewish Com- ties in Chile and Peru have
mittee's South American of- become increasingly self-
fice, who reported from sufficient.
Buenos Aires, stressed the
problem of Jewish educa-
tion: "The state of Jewish
education is very poor. Less
than 15 per cent of Jewish
children attend Jewish
schools. Argentina is the only
Latin American country
where Jewish teachers are
being trained, but standards
are not yet on the level of
similar institutions in the
United States."
The problem is equally
acute at the northern end of
the continent, according to
Sergio Nudelstejer, director
of the AJC office in Mexico
and Central America. Most
Mexican Jews of earlier gen-
erations, he stated, "show a
strong sense of identity. As-
similation exists largely
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creases, the more anti-Semi-
tism will grow. Because
most Latin American Jews
are middle and upper-class
people, they are prime tar-
threat, the committee stated
in a summary of the reports.
Also of great concern are the
growing rate of intermar-
riage and the lack of interest
in Judaism among young
people.
While government officials
in most of Latin America gen-
erally have looked with dis-
favor on anti-Semitic organ-
izations in recent years, and
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pends on outside develop-
ments, such as the situation
in the Middle East, the re-
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Neo-Nazism — which gain-
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consent of the president, and
that the chief target of
Rega's remarks was Finance
Minister Jose Ber Gelbard,
who is Jewish.
When the first AJC office
opened its doors in Buenos
Aires, Jewish life had much
greater vitality than at pres-
ent, the reports indicate.
However, the surge of in-
NEW YORK—Internal and
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the Latin American Jewish
community, with Arab anti-
Semitic propaganda and
alienation of Jewish youth
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fall of 1943 and was the only
successful. large-scale rescue
operation to take place in
Europe. All but 400 of Den-
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