A leader of Argentine Jewry described the Jewish community in his country as one that has “not yet reached the point of linguistic and cultural assimilation which British and American Jews have reached.” According to Simcha Sneh, general secretary of the Zionist Organization of Argentina, the Jews there “are now at a point at which British and American Jews were some 30 years ago.” Mr. Sneh, who stopped over in London en route from a Jewish leadership meeting in Israel, spoke at a reception given for him by the World Jewish Congress Yiddish committee and the Association of Jewish Journalists.
He said one sign of the relative lack of assimilation among Argentine Jewry was the publication of two Yiddish dailies in Buenos Aires in addition to Davke, a journal sponsored by the WJCongress but written and edited in the Argentine capital. Mr. Sneh said that 20 percent of all Jewish children in Argentina attend Jewish day schools.
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