ABSTRACT
As newer generations moved away from the immigrant experience, Jewish values founded on Old World experience became weaker. As integration into the new local society progressed, Jewish values became diluted by those of the non-Jewish bourgeois society that so wholeheartedly embraced European cultural standards. The struggle to form a Jewish identity among young people was left almost exclusively to organized Jewish education, both formal and informal. Not only has traditional Judaism been severely eroded, but changes that have taken place in the general society, and that impinge directly on Jewish educational needs, have not been adequately taken into account. The large sports and social clubs attract the largest numbers of Jewish youth to the field of informal Jewish education. Informal education in Argentina takes place within three sectors: the Zionist movement, the sports and social clubs, and the Conservative movement. The pioneering youth movements are characterized by their radical attitude toward the Zionist ideal.
